On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 18:08, Marius Dumitru Florea <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi devs,
>
> I have this wiki syntax:
>
> ----------8<----------
> {{velocity output="false"}}
> $xwiki.ssrx.use('uicomponents/widgets/gallery.css')
> $xwiki.jsrx.use('uicomponents/widgets/gallery.js')
> {{/velocity}}
> (% class="gallery" %)(((
> image:first.png
> ...
> image:last.png
> )))
> ---------->8----------
>
> and I'd like to make the resource import automatic. I think we can
> achieve this in two steps.
>
> (1) Add a way to group skin extensions. I'd like to be able to write this:
>
> ----------8<----------
> {{velocity output="false"}}
> $xwiki.gsx.use('gallery')
> {{/velocity}}
> (% class="gallery" %)(((
> image:first.png
> ...
> image:last.png
> )))
> ---------->8----------
>
> (2) Write a rendering transformation that looks for style names (CSS
> classes) in the content and imports the skin extension group with the
> same name. This way I'd be able to write just:
>
> ----------8<----------
> (% class="gallery" %)(((
> image:first.png
> ...
> image:last.png
> )))
> ---------->8----------
>
> Let's consider the technical details now:
>
> (1) I propose we add two XWiki classes:
>
> XWiki.SkinExtension
> * type (StaticList): jsrx
> * resource (String): uicomponents/widgets/gallery.js
>
> XWiki.SkinExtensionRole
> * role (String): gallery
>
> which will be used by a new SkinExtension plugin and component
> (hint=gsx). The XWiki.SkinExtensionRole objects will be joined with
> XWiki.SkinExtension objects by document id. In other words, in order to
> create a skin extension group you have to add a XWiki.SkinExtensionRole
> object and multiple XWiki.SkinExtension objects to a document.
>
> To make group creation easier for StyleSheetExtension and
> JavaScriptExtension the new skin extension plugin will include them
> automatically in the group defined by the XWiki.SkinExtensionRole. In
> other words if you want to group a JSX and a SSX that are on the same
> document you just have to add a XWiki.SkinExtensionRole object to that
> document.
>
It would be great to be able to group different components, not just
Extensions, like:
- ColorThemes + StyleSheetExtension
http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XSKINX-48
- SkinExtentions + ColorThemes
- Macros + StyleSheetExtension
etc.
Thanks,
Caty
>
> (2) The rendering transformation that will automatically import the skin
> extension groups based on style names will use the skin extension
> component defined at step (1). This transformation should be the last
> one executed.
>
> WDYT? I'd like to implement this ASAP as it doesn't seem to be very
> complicated.
>
> Thanks,
> Marius
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