Hi, If your assumption of using REST API is not really a need, then personnally I would do things differently. I can just expose general idea, don't have much time to go into details but maybe it can help you ... - create a new specific page in XWiki (RemoteAttachmentService ?), that will, using some parameters provided when targeting its url (url of remote image, name of xwiki page to create attachment, filename of this attachment), do the following: - perform a GET on that url to retrieve image bytes (I think you can find Groovy examples by looking at extensions about Jira or Nexus integration on xwiki.org for the GET), or to save that image as a temporary file somewhere - use XWiki API to create or update a new page, create a new Attachment on this page and set the image bytes as its content, save that doc - write some JSON as unique page content with info you like (result success/failure, error message, whatever...) - from the page where you want your users to add that sort of attachments, perform an Ajax request on RemoteAttachmentService, with needed parameters, and manage success/failure to display result to user
I assumed that you didn't want to reload the page (as you wanted to make it in javascript), if you don't care you can use only what I called RemoteAttachmentService as unique page, and don't bother with Ajax call, of course. BR, Jeremie 2013/2/13 zacharykane <[email protected]> > I think I should maybe put this another way. > > What I'm trying to do is add an attachment to a page that is a remotely > available image file. The way the process is desired to work is that the > user doesn't have to download this image and then use the attachment form > on > the page manually. Rather, they'd like to know if it can be taken care of > programmaticly. > > I made an assumption of the REST API based upon the example of creating a > Page. It seems that this won't be the same process with creating files - at > least from a purely JavaScript perspective. Using Velocity can I achieve > something like this server side? > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://xwiki.475771.n2.nabble.com/create-attachment-with-Rest-API-tp7583867p7583871.html > Sent from the XWiki- Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
