2013/10/11 Eduard Moraru <[email protected]> > > Technical note: Looking at the code, I can`t see these WikiPropertyGroups > being handled anywhere. I imagine that you would have to delegate the task > of creating WikiDescriptor instances to the WikiManager which will, in > turn, be in charge of querying all the WikiPropertyGroupProviders and > populating the new WikiDescriptor with these properties before returning it > to the caller. > > You speak of WikiPropertyGroup as a storage location. However, in the code, > I see that each provider is supposed to save the properties itself, so it > is in charge of picking a physical location for these properties to be > stored. The WikiDescriptor would only be a logical location where > applications might store and read information/properties **about** the > wiki. When an application would store a new property for a wiki in a > certain property group, that group's provider will be in charge of > physically storing the value in the location where that group's properties > are physically stored. > > It would be an interesting idea, but I find that it would be much more > productive as a generic service of its own and not just limited to wikis. > It is easy to imagine the need for such a service in the case of users. > Applications might want to store/query properties for the current user, > maybe for the current space and so on. For users, right now we`re storing > stuff in the user profile. For wikis, we`d probably store it in > XWikiPreferences, SpacePreferences for spaces and so on. > > Maybe something a bit like what we do with ConfiguratinSource, but targeted > on certain entities (wikis, users, etc) > > https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-commons/blob/master/xwiki-commons-core/xwiki-commons-configuration/xwiki-commons-configuration-api/src/main/java/org/xwiki/configuration/ConfigurationSource.java > ...however, what I don`t like about ConfigurationSource is that it is > ReadOnly. > > Would be a shame to spend the effort and not to make it a generic solution. > > WDYT? >
I think it is a good idea. But I won't have the time to do it for 5.3. I want to continue on what I have already proposed, and we could still make a generic solution after. Thanks, Louis-Marie _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
