Guillaume "Louis-Marie" Delhumeau: > You can either: > - write a new component indeed, and a script service to expose it to the > scripting languages that we have on XWiki: > http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Script+Module
> - write it directly in Groovy inside the wiki: > http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/Scripting > My extension already does something similar, see: > http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/SQL+Tools Yes, the Groovy stuff is very impressive. My preference for Java was to restrict access to the code, as I still feel uneasy about the possibility that somebody could hijack the code. > > 1) How can I get the current user, so that I can use this contextual > > information in my query? > > > > You have this information in the XWikiContext object, that you can inject in > your component via a provider. (like this: > https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/blob/master/xwiki-platform-core/xwiki-platform-wiki/xwiki-platform-wiki- > > default/src/main/java/org/xwiki/wiki/internal/manager/DefaultWikiManager.java#L55 > ) > OK, so this is something that has got me thoroughly confused, since http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/WritingComponents#HTheXWikicontext seems to be saying you should not be using xwikicontext any more, but I couldn't see any details about how to do something like get the user from the execution.getContext(). This is one of those areas where the different revisions of various documentation have sent me round in circles :-( > > 2) How should I return the tabular data? > > Maybe you should return a Map that you then display with some velocity code > in a page. OK, good advice, thanks. _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
