On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 12:56 AM, Chamika Weerasinghe > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Thomas Mortagne > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > >> Hi Chamika, > >> > >> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 5:56 AM, Chamika Weerasinghe < > [email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > Hi all, > >> > > >> > I've finished development of the XWiki Android Client. I also finished > >> XWiki > >> > REST library unit tests and instrumentation tests for the UI > components > >> will > >> > be added soon. > >> > > >> > Here is a demo of the application.(This demo is captured using the > >> Android > >> > emulator which may result slow response than an actual device) > >> > ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiEM0iNMnTE ) > >> > > >> > Please give me your feedback so that I can improve the project. > >> > >> Very nice video ! > >> > >> Here is what seems to be missing before a first release IMO: > >> * I can see an object viewer but no class viewer > >> > > Since classes list of a wiki is very large, everytime UI fails to load. > > Therefore I avoided putting it. Library works fine. > > Listing classes is one thing but what I'm actually talking about is > having a third tab when you edit a document to edit just the class > stored in this document like you can edit the objects stored in that > document. For example in XWiki standard UI when you edit a document > you can have several editors: wiki, wysiwyg, objects, class, rights. > If you are asking for class editor, I think it doesn't provide with XWiki REST (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Features/XWikiRESTfulAPI). There is no PUT or POST method support for adding properties to a class. Since you are asking for a 3rd tab for classes, I developed a view for showing list of classes used in that page and properties of the classes can be *viewed*. > > About the issue you have here you could have the exact same with pages > and even objects, maybe you could add some pagination in your UI to > not load everything at once. > I hope to improve additional features like these after GSOC is over. As I said I'll contribute to this project continuously. > > > > > * the UI does not allow to edit (except for attachment and comments) > >> but does the library allows it ? > >> > > Yes library allows it. I added editing content using object selection in > my > > recent push. This component was developed early but have some issues. Now > > it's working fine. Go to object View and select an object to edit the > > content. > > > > > >> * did you had time to implement some caching ? even if you don't have > >> edition yet would still be nice to cache some pages and check behind > >> the scene if the current page changed on server to avoid > >> re-downloading it when you go to page1 then page2 and then go back to > >> page 1. > >> > > Sometimes I used caching but there are many places which will improve the > > performance by caching. Sorry I'm little bit busy these days and couldn't > > find time to do that. I will surely improve caching later. > > > > > >> * is https supported ? > >> > > Since you are not advised me to look into https I didn't setup https > classes > > yet. But https is possilbe in Android development. > > Since supporting https is trivial in Java I did not expected it to be > a lot more work actually. > > > > > > >> * in the setup I see you have only the host/port as server > >> information, as we discussed some time ago I think it would be better > >> to let the user put the full base URL (http://host:port/xwiki/rest/) > >> of the REST service (but you can have a wysard to help generate the > >> URL), that's because some part of the URL can be changed by > >> configuration and it also answer my previous question about https I > >> guess > >> * is it too big for the GSOC to have the server setting part as an > >> Android account ? would be super nice since it would allow several > >> application to use the same account to access a wiki. At worst if you > >> looked at it it would be nice to put what you found some far in a > >> http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/ page and same note for any > >> other TODO you have in mind that you could not finish > >> > > I think there is no time left to work in GSOC. But I like to contribute > > XWiki Android continuously. I'll get more free time after my internship > > ends( will take another three/four weeks). Then I'll work on this. > > That would be great ! > > > > >> > >> Some suggestions for the demo: > >> * would probably be nicer to do the demo with a well known wiki like > >> xwiki.org or myxwiki.org > > > > I'll give a demo using one. > New demo uses page accession to www.xwiki.org Here is the new demo ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOvuBygvZMU ) > > > >> > >> > >> Did not had much time to look at the code of the library yet but will > >> sure do next Monday. > >> > > It's ok :) > > > >> > >> I can see on http://maven.xwiki.org/snapshots/org/xwiki/android/ that > >> you have xwiki-rest-gson-model, xwiki-rest-model-simplexml and > >> xwiki-rest-simplexml-model so which one is teh right form ? As I told > >> you already I think you should have > >> > >> - xwiki-rest-model > >> -- xwiki-rest-model-gson > >> -- xwiki-rest-model-simplexml > >> > > As you said I > > renamed xwiki-rest-simplexml-model to xwiki-rest-model-simplexml. I > didn't > > touch the gson model lately. So no changes are made to gson model. > > That's not exactly what I said: xwiki-rest-model should be pom > artifact with the two others as sub projects. The goal of my proposal > being to regroup the different models just renaming one of them is not > very useful ;) > Changed the model of the modules. > > > > > > >> > >> > > >> > Thank you, > >> > Best Regards, > >> > Chamika Weerasinghe > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > devs mailing list > >> > [email protected] > >> > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > >> > > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Thomas Mortagne > >> _______________________________________________ > >> devs mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > devs mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > > > > > > -- > Thomas Mortagne > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > Best Regards, Chamika Weerasinghe _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
