On 04/06/2011 09:31 AM, Marius Dumitru Florea wrote: > On 04/05/2011 08:00 PM, Hasitha Abeykoon wrote: >> Hi Marius Dumitru , >> >> As you have instructed I looked into "Auto Completion" mail threads. Sorry >> I was busy with exams past few days, thus i could not keep the touch. >> > >> - I went through Aparche Lucene in oder to figure out the capability >> of >> using it in the suggested project. It does not seems to give everything >> which is needed to implement the auto completion (specially the image >> facilities.) Please correct me if i am wrong on this. > > I'm not sure Lucene is very useful for this project. Lucene is meant for > full-text search in multiple data sources. For this project the > auto-complete suggestions are very targeted. You have to retrieve a list > of wiki pages, attachments, images or macros. I think that it's better > to query this entities directly (there are APIs available). Note that > you can't use Lucene for macros anyway because macros are components: > you have to use the component manager instead. Also, Lucene builds its > index with a delay so the list of suggestions might not be accurate all > the time.
Note that REST ( http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Features/XWikiRESTfulAPI ) is an alternative too for retrieving the auto complete suggestions. Hope this helps, Marius > >> - Can we use JQUERY in oder to do some client side processing? Caching >> the Macros and pictures which have been recently used will be stored in >> the browsers cache until the users log out. > > Currently we don't use JQuery in XWiki platform. We use Prototype and > you might have problems mixing both. We prefer the client side code to > be written in Prototype so that we can integrate it easier into the > XWiki platform. One of the goals is to make this feature available in > future versions of XWiki Enterprise. > > Note that for the WYSIWYG editor some part of the code will have to be > written in GWT because the editor is written in GWT. > >> - I also looked into how Microsoft word does autocompletion. > >> - Please direct me the on current technologies which can be relevant. > > As long as you have a good understanding of native JavaScript code, DOM > API and Java you won't have any problems learning Prototype.js or GWT. > > Besides the client side technologies, for this project you will have to > work with the XWiki data model ( > http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/DataModel ), XWiki > rendering ( http://rendering.xwiki.org/ ) and the search APIs for which > you'll have to know HQL (we're using Hibernate as a database abstraction > layer). > > Hope this helps, > Marius > >> >> >> Thanks >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
