On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 2:54 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> > On 31 Mar 2016, at 13:02, Alexandru Cotiuga <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi devs,
> >
> > As I was working on the Forum Application, which depends on Ratings
> > Application, I noticed that the rating configuration doesn't work as
> > expected on the Nested Spaces versions of XWiki.
> >
> > For example, having A.WebPreferences with a XWiki.RatingsConfigClass
> > object, the configuration does not apply to A.B.WebHome, because the
> > configuration is set at space level, without inheritance to the below
> > levels.
> >
>


> > As a solution for this I propose to create a new Api
> > (getConfigurationDocument()) in the Ratings module which will check,
> > starting the current document, and get the first ancestor that holds the
> > XWiki.RatingsConfigClass object and use that as configuration document,
> > keeping the fallback to the XWiki.RatingsConfig document.
>

What I don't like about this solution is the fact that once you add a
XWiki.RatingsConfigClass
object to A.B you completely overwrite the configuration from A, while you
may simply want to overwrite just one configuration property. Of course,
this raises the problem of knowing if a configuration property is set or
not. The empty string may have a meaning.

Also, note that this is a generic need. Other applications might want the
same configuration inheritance. As Vincent suggested, we could create a
generic configuration source for this.

Thanks,
Marius


> >
> > An issue has been created at http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-13274
> and a
> > first pull request at https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/pull/472,
> but
> > without having been discussed here before.
> >
> > WDYT?
>
> Sounds good to me. I gave several comments in the PR. One important one is
> to introduce a RatingsConfiguration component to hold the Ratings module’s
> configuration and have the various other Ratings components use it,
> including the ScriptService since right now there are at least 3 places
> getting the config.
>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
>
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