On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi devs, > > I'm implementing the LinkChecker UI and I want to be able to add a Tab in > AllDocs. Right now I've coded it with a hardcoded #if but I really hate this. > > So here's my proposal: > > * Create the following modules: > xwiki-platform-uiextension/ > |_ xwiki-platform-uiextension-ui/ > |_ xwiki-platform-uiextension-api/ > > where: > * xwiki-platform-uiextension-ui/: contains XWiki.UIExtensionClass page > * xwiki-platform-uiextension-api/: contains a ScriptService to get > UIExtension data + contains an EventListener that refreshes the UI Extension > Cache when an UIExtensionClass object is modified (this is for performance > reasons) > > To start with I'm proposing to have the following fields for UIExtensionClass: > * type: String, represents the type of the extension (for example for the > AllDocs needs, I'll use a "IndexTab" type (or "AllDocsTab" type)
Not sure about the type name, maybe more something like "enterprise.indexTab" to follow configuration and translation keys standard. > * id: String, the technical name of the extension, which can be used for > example as suffix for HTML class or ids. > * name: String, the name of the extension, which can be used for displaying. > For example for the AllDocs needs, it would be used as the name of the Tab > * content: Textarea: the content of the extension. For example for the > AllDocs needs, it would be used as the content to display when clicking on a > tab > > I'd like to implement this ASAP and thus stop hardcoding UI Extensions from > now on. > > Here's my +1 +1 I'm ok with "uiextension". > > Thanks > -Vincent > > PS: If you find a better than "uiextension" I'm all ears. A name without > "extension" would be great to not confuse it with our Extensions (and with > xwiki-platform-extension). > _______________________________________________ > 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
