Hi Hasitha, On 03/29/2011 04:25 PM, Hasitha Abeykoon wrote: > Hi All, > > I am *Hasitha Abeykoon* from Sri Lanka. I am a final year student of > *Department > of Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Moratuwa*. I > am interested in the idea of "*Auto Completion in Content Editors*". I have > already read the implementation of Confluence 3.2. It is pretty interesting > if we had that facility in XWIKI as you have suggested.
I'm glad you are interested in this project. > > As I was reading the proposal the first thought came into my mind was > that *Google > API's *can be efficiently used to get the search results according to the > half typed word. If the previously used words were cached we can use them to > *predict the word *that the user would be typing. I don't think Google APIs are of any help here. When the user types after the autocomplete feature has been triggered she is in fact searching through some entities that are internal to XWiki. These entities are for instance macro components, wiki pages, attachments of wiki pages or image attachments. We have already good APIs to query them, and these APIs are not that bad in terms of performance because they query the database. Alternatively you could use Lucene, which already indexes some of these entities. Now, you raised an important issue: providing live suggestions on the client side needs some sort of cache mechanism to be efficient. > > Please clarify me on these two ideas, and also please direct me to a place > where i can get details about the high level implementation of WYSIWYG > editor and Wiki editor. You should start by reading these two threads http://lists.xwiki.org/pipermail/devs/2011-March/022180.html and http://lists.xwiki.org/pipermail/devs/2011-March/022184.html . Hope this helps, Marius > > Thank you in advance, and sincerely hope it would be nice to work with you > all. > > Hasitha Abeykoon, > Department of Computer Science& Engineering, > University of Moratuwa. > Skype: foreverhasitha > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
