On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 18:33, Marius Dumitru Florea <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi devs,
>
> For the upcoming Application Within Minutes I need to enhance the
> XWiki platform with the ability to generate the page name
> automatically when creating a new wiki page. For some applications it
> doesn't make sense to have two creation steps: (1) specify the wiki
> page name (i.e. the location) and then (2) edit the new wiki page with
> the specified name. Let me give you two examples:
>
> * It would be cool to be able to create a new blog post in a single
> step. The blog post name could be generated from the blog post title
> specified in the edit form.
>
> * An application that manages holiday requests doesn't need meaningful
> page names (i.e. free text, like a blog post would have) but something
> like Request_XYZ, where XYZ is a unique counter/identifier.
>
> These applications should be able to create new wiki pages with
> automatically generated names without writing their custom create
> forms.
>
> Since 3.2RC1 was planed for today and these changes are in the 3.2
> roadmap, here's a proposal that I think I can implement quickly and
> safely:
>
> (1) Introduce two new components:
>
> // Used to generate a document name that doesn't have to be unique
> (e.g. by cleaning the document title).
> DocumentReferenceGenerator#generate(DocumentModelBridge):DocumentReference
>
> // Used to make a document name unique (by suffixing an unique
> counter/identifier)
>
> DocumentReferenceDifferentiator#differentiate(DocumentReference):DocumentReference
>
> (2) Modify editinline.vm to store "documentReferenceGenerator" and
> "documentReferenceDifferentiator" request parameters in two hidden
> input fields so that they are passed to the save action. Obviously,
> these are component hints.
>
> (3) Modify editactions.vm to replace "Save & View" + "Save & Continue"
> with "Create" when "documentReferenceGenerator" or
> "documentReferenceDifferentiator" (or both) request parameters are
> set.
>
+1
>
> (4) Modify SaveAction to take into account these two request
> parameters (only if they are specified). Something along these lines:
>
> generateDocumentReference(doc)
> synchronize(lock) {
> doc.copyDocument(differentiate(generatedDocumentReference)).save();
> }
>
> I'm not sure where to place the two components from (1) though. WDYT?
>
> Thanks,
> Marius
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