Hi Eduard, thanks a lot for your advices given below. At this project state I'm going with as simple as possible solution so I created special simple web page for listing all the template providers as per your advice and this runs well. On the other hand I do have some issue running running SWT browser as part of new page wizard. The problem is authentication, or better its lack of. Although I pass to the browser correct page URL, the output of the browser is always:
HTTP Status 404 - /xwiki-enterprise-web-3.1-SNAPSHOThttp://localhost:8080/xwiki-enterprise-web-3.1-SNAPSHOT/bin/login/XWiki/XWikiLogin type Status report message /xwiki-enterprise-web-3.1-SNAPSHOThttp://localhost:8080/xwiki-enterprise-web-3.1-SNAPSHOT/bin/login/XWiki/XWikiLogin description The requested resource (/xwiki-enterprise-web-3.1-SNAPSHOThttp://localhost:8080/xwiki-enterprise-web-3.1-SNAPSHOT/bin/login/XWiki/XWikiLogin) is not available. Apache Tomcat/7.0.12 Anyway, I tested the URL in external browser and it's working fine there -- please note I'm logged in in this browser. I've attempted to hack the code to convince browser to authenticate by using authentication listener: browser = new Browser(browserComposite, SWT.NONE); browser.addAuthenticationListener(new AuthenticationListener() { public void authenticate(AuthenticationEvent event) { // TODO Auto-generated method stub System.err.println("AuthenticationListener::authenticate: " + event.toString()); event.user = "Admin"; event.password = "admin"; event.doit = true; } }); but this is not even invoked. Do you have any idea how to solve this? I see that preview browser is always running in non-authenticated mode (or what I've researched so far) although connection in Explorer is authenticated... If you are curious I'm free to submit all changes in a form of preferred diff to the original RFE, especially if it helps you advice me how to proceed from here... Thanks! Karel On 06/ 2/11 10:14 PM, Eduard Moraru wrote: > Hi Karel, > > On 06/02/2011 07:54 PM, Karel Gardas wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm back to this task. I've searched JIRA for related RFE/BUG but have >> not found anything so I created my own: >> http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XECLIPSE-152 >> >> My basic idea about UI is that XEclipse New Page wizard will be enhanced >> to provide a field "Template" where user will be able to select >> appropriate template provider (as they are set in Administration> >> Content> Templates). > In order to get the list of templates in XEclipse, you would need a > service that does internally a HQL like this: > > #set($availableProviders = $xwiki.searchDocuments(", BaseObject obj > where doc.fullName=obj.name and > obj.className='XWiki.TemplateProviderClass' and > doc.fullName!='XWiki.TemplateProviderTemplate'")) > (taken from XWiki.AdminTemplatesSheet, the page that displays the > content in Administration> Content> Templates) > > The service can be either a REST extension (java component) or a wiki > page called with ?xpage=plain (to return the result in some custom xml > or just csv). >> If he/she sets some, then while clicking on Next >> button (to be added) it'll render the page of the template provider form >> to the wizard window, the user will be able to fill it and then hit >> Finish button to actually save the page. > Both to avoid reimplementing the template mechanism and the rendering of > the template form, one rather simple solution would be to display in an > SWT Browser control the result of a page like > http://localhost:8080/xwiki/bin/inline/Main/MyNewPage?parent=Main.AParentPage&template=Main.MyTemplate&title=MyNewPageTitle > (the type of link generated by the create page dialog in XWiki). > Basically you show the XWiki page inside your wizard. > The problem with this approach is that you end up with unnecessary > header, panels and footer when you`re only interested in the page > content. Besides that, you also have the save, save&continue and cancel > buttons that are kind of conflicting with your wizard's buttons and flow. > > Not sure about this, but one solution may be to extract from the big > HTML, only the document content, excluding the bottom buttons. You`d > better inspect (with firebug) the structure of the page to see what you > need and what you don`t. > > A second partial solution would be to append ?xpage=plain to the above > link and you will end up only with the rendered document content in > inline mode (so you can have inputs and such). The only disadvantage I > see here is that, if your template uses non-inline javascript (trough a > JavaScriptExtension for example or the js already available in XWiki), > it will not be available in the rendered version. > > Whichever you choose from the two solutions, you can then implement the > Finish button of the wizard to launch a HTTP request and simulate the > Save button from XWiki's page (passing all the needed parameters, > including the parameters in the page the user just filled in). > > You can additionally stylize the displayed HTML so that it better > integrates with the Eclipse wizard. >> Now the question is how to achieve it? Any idea where to start hacking >> or where to look for more information is highly appreciated here. > This is the only thing I can think of right now. Hope it helps. > > Thanks, > Eduard >> Thanks, >> Karel >> >> On 04/26/11 05:38 PM, Karel Gardas wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I'm currently reading about XWiki and XEclipse and would like to ask if >>> there is any consensus about XWiki pages templates which might also be >>> usable from XEclipse probably after some code hacking on its plugins. >>> >>> I'm currently working on some project for my client (source code will be >>> contributed/available later in the project stage) where there is a need >>> to use XEclipse and enhance it to support some predefined >>> forms/templates for web pages creation. So far I've found just XWiki FAQ >>> tutorial on >>> http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/FAQTutorial which >>> tries to deals with some kind of templates. However this looks quite >>> general at least so far to me and so I would like to ask the question >>> above about consensus where and how to go with templates in xwiki/xeclipse. >>> >>> My current idea is to stick with the XWiki server as a provider of >>> templates to preserve ability to use templates from both browser and >>> xeclipse and to enhance xeclipse new page creation wizard to provide a >>> list of available templates on the server side... >>> >>> Thanks for any idea where to start or where to look for more information >>> with regarding to this project task. >>> >>> Karel >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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
