Hi Jun, the REST api also takes into account Wikis, so you should take into account this into the plugin.
-Fabio On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 7:35 AM, Jun Han <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Fabio, > > I have finished replacing xmlrpc implementation of login functionality > by sending http GET request to entry point > (http://localhost:8080/xwiki/rest/) along with username/password. > > A status code of 200 will be regarded as successful while 401 means > login fails. > > The source code have been updated in org.xwiki.eclipse.ui and > org.xwiki.eclipse.core plugins. > > I will begin working on xwiki navigatoin panel and replace xmlrpc code > accordingly. > > One question is what resources are to be included in navigation panel, > besides xwiki -> space -> pages? and how to display them? > > Best regards > > Jun Han > > On 06/05/2011 05:50 PM, Fabio Mancinelli wrote: >> Hi Jun, >> >> login/logout can be implemented in order to store on the client side >> user credentials that are sent with HTTP requests. >> Currently there is no way in the REST-api to get a "session token" >> (like the cookie sent after a login is made using the web form) so >> that subsequent requests are performed on the behalf of a previously >> authenticated user. >> >> So what is usually done is to send basic-auth credentials with each request. >> >> You can start with this. Next you might try to retrieve the cookie by >> faking a standard login and using that cookie in subsequent requests. >> >> The ideal setting would be to implement server side some OAuth-like >> mechanism, but this is out of scope wrt your project. >> >> -Fabio >> >> On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Jun Han<[email protected]> wrote: >>> Dear all, >>> >>> I am on the way of replacing the xmlrpc implementation of >>> RemoteXWikiDataStorage implements IDataStorage {}. >>> >>> One question is about how to implement login and logout functionality >>> via REST API. >>> From REST API document, users can be authenticated via something like: >>> 1. XWiki session >>> 2. HTTP Basic Auth. >>> >>> HTTP basic auth can be implemented via adding HTTP header to the HTTP >>> request, then XEclipse can display Xwiki Resources by parsing the response. >>> >>> Therefore, do we need to implement login and logout methods? >>> >>> Best regards >>> Jun Han >>> _______________________________________________ >>> devs mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> devs mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
