On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 9:32 PM, Chamika Weerasinghe <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 10:39 PM, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]
>> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 12:56 AM, Chamika Weerasinghe
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > 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.
>>
>> I can see on
>> https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/tree/master/xwiki-platform-core/xwiki-platform-rest/xwiki-platform-rest-server/src/main/java/org/xwiki/rest/resources/classes
>> some xclass related server REST resources, maybe the documentation is
>> not up to date.
>>
> I checked the java class files in the given source. But I couldn't see any
> method which implements @PUT or @POST in ClassResources. If they have
> already implemented it, can you give me the information about it?

Indeed I can't find any @PUT/POST either, it has probably been
forgotten. I actually tough it was done in XEclipse, maybe Jun
proposed a patch already (I did not followed this project very
closely).

Don't hesitate to propose a patch when you have some time ;)

>
>
>>
>> >
>> > 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*.
>>
>> Again I'm not talking about viewer/object editor but class
>> viewer/editor. The tab I'm talking about should display the class of
>> the document and not the class used by objects of this document.
>>
> Since many components are already developed it's not a very big deal to view
> the class of the document.I'll change it as you preferred.
> But editing cannot be implemented because REST doesn't have that. same
> problem mentioned above.
>
>
>>
>> >
>> >
>> >>
>> >> 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
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