On 03/29/2016 11:44 AM, Vincent Massol wrote:
>
>> On 29 Mar 2016, at 17:42, Sergiu Dumitriu <ser...@xwiki.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 03/29/2016 11:40 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
>>> On 03/29/2016 11:32 AM, Vincent Massol wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 29 Mar 2016, at 16:53, Vincent Massol <vinc...@massol.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 29 Mar 2016, at 16:46, Sergiu Dumitriu <ser...@xwiki.org> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It is working, but only if the default action is missing as well. So
>>>>>> indeed /bin/view/Page doesn't work ('view' is considered the space), but
>>>>>> /bin/Page does work. And as far as I know, it always worked this way.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ok, thanks for remembering this! So only when xwiki.showviewaction=0
>>>>>
>>>>>> When not considering nested spaces, I'm -0 for its removal, it's a
>>>>>> setting that's useful for shorter URLs in a mostly read only site (e.g.
>>>>>> public website).
>>>>>
>>>>> Only if you put your documents in the Main space… If you need short URLs
>>>>> it’s better to use a shorturl strategy as described at
>>>>> http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/ShortURLs (notice that
>>>>> xwiki.usedefaultweb is not even mentioned there).
>>>>>
>>>>>> I don't have a clear grasp of how nested spaces work,
>>>>>> so I'm not sure how this setting affects nested spaces.
>>>>>
>>>>> I’ll do some tests but I’m pretty sure that the combination of
>>>>> xwiki.showviewaction=1 + xwiki.usedefaultweb=1 + Nested Pages is not
>>>>> currently working.
>>>>
>>>> So indeed this got broken in 7.2M1 when we refactored URL parsing for
>>>> Nested Spaces/Pages (XWIKI-12169).
>>>>
>>>> The problem is that this conflicts with the strategy we’ve used to access
>>>> top level Nested Pages. In the URL parsing code we have:
>>>>
>>>> // Normally the last segment is always the page name but we want to handle
>>>> a special case when we
>>>> // have "/view/something" and we wish in this case to consider that
>>>> "something" is the space. This
>>>> // is to handle Nested Documents, so that the user can have a top level
>>>> Nested Document
>>>> // (something.WebHome) and access it from /view/something. If we didn't
>>>> handle this special case
>>>> // the user would get Main.something and thus wouldn't be able to access
>>>> something.WebHome. He'd
>>>> // need to use /view/something/ which is not natural in the Nested
>>>> Document mode.
>>>>
>>>> So right now when we see /bin/view/something or /bin/something, we
>>>> consider “something” to be the space name and the page is “WebHome”.
>>>>
>>>> So this conflicts with the previous behavior of xwiki.usedefaultweb=1 &
>>>> xwiki.showviewaction=0
>>>>
>>>> We need to decide what we want. I personally prefer removing
>>>> xwiki.usedefaultweb which was already strange (since it worked only with
>>>> xwiki.showviewaction and only shortens URLs if the doc is in the Main
>>>> space) and keep the ability to access top-level Nested Documents easily.
>>>>
>>>> WDYT?
>>>
>>> Sounds good, +1. There was an old issue, debating whether /bin/Something
>>> should resolve to Something.WebHome or Main.Something, and the popular
>>> opinion was Something.WebHome, so it's good that this was finally solved.
>>>
>>> http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-4643
>>> http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-3844
>>
>> Question, are nested spaces optional? If yes, should the current
>> behavior be kept for backwards compatibility?
>
> No, Nested Spaces are not optional.
>
Indeed, I was thinking about the parent-child hierarchy which is now
optional.
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