Are you talking about introducing a special syntax or is the idea to put the space reference (which is not the same as saying that space are separated by space, reference syntax is documented and have associated resolver/serializers) instead of the space name like in the document table ?
On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Guillaume "Louis-Marie" Delhumeau <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi. > > This proposal is already explained in > http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-12206. I think it is an important issue > to fix because it blocks http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-12198 (Ensure > annotations work on nested spaces). > > The current REST URL for a space is: > /xwiki/rest/wikis/xwiki/spaces/Europe > > and for a page: > /xwiki/rest/wikis/xwiki/spaces/Europe/pages/WebHome > > The idea is to use dots as space separator in the REST URLs in the case of > nested spaces. Example: > /xwiki/rest/wikis/xwiki/spaces/Europe.France.Paris > > For spaces containing dots in their name, we simply escape them with \ > (%5C). > > It has the drawback to not have a similar URL than the standard action, ie: > /xwiki/bin/view/Europe/France/Paris/WebHome - for view action > /xwiki/rest/wikis/xwiki/spaces/Europe.France.Paris/pages/WebHome - for REST > action > > But it does not seem possible to handle "/" in path parameters with Restlet. > ie: > /xwiki/rest/wikis/xwiki/spaces/Europe/France/Paris/pages/WebHome > is not supported by Restlet. > > After a talk with some Restlet committers, they confirm me that we have to > write our own URL router to handle this. I don't know if it worth the pain > although I don't have evaluated it. > > So I guess this proposal using dots is the best option, but I'm free to > talk about this. > > Thanks, > Guillaume > > -- > Guillaume Delhumeau ([email protected]) > Research & Development Engineer at XWiki SAS > Committer on the XWiki.org project > _______________________________________________ > 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
