+1 2016-09-15 9:38 GMT+02:00 Vincent Massol <[email protected]>:
> Hi devs, > > We are trying to reduce the size of oldcore (been working on it for years > ;)). We currently have code for XAR import and export in several places in > oldcore. > > I’d like to define the strategy that we’d like to follow in the future for > moving this code out. > > Let’s see what we have and what it could become: > * An existing ‘filter" module outside of oldcore to import/export XAR. > * An action for exporting a XAR: ExportAction. Future: make it a new URL > type with components as we’ve done for webjars > * An action for importing a XAR: ImportAction. Future: make it a new URL > type with components as we’ve done for webjars > * A UI at the page level to export a page as a XAR. Future: add an UIXP in > export_modal.vm and plugin the XAR option as an UIX > * 2 Uis in the admin to import and export XARx. Future: convert those for > ConfigurableClass. > * A legacy “packaging” plugin with oldcode to import XARs. Future: retire > it in xwiki-contrib and rewrite the Import/Export Admin UI to use the new > XAR filter from the filter module. > * Ancillary classes such as XARImport*/XARExport* events. > > So the question is where to put those? > > Proposal: xwiki-platform-xar > ===================== > > I think what would make the most sense would be to continue the XAR module > started by Thomas: xwiki-platform-xar. > > It would go like this: > > xwiki-platform-xar > |_ xwiki-platform-xar-api (what’s currently in xwiki-platform-xar + Java > code from oldcore defined above) > |_ xwiki-platform-xar-ui (the ui part of the oldcore code above) > |_ xwiki-platform-xar-filter (the move from xwiki-platform-filter-stream- > xar) > > WDYT? > > The other option that I like less would be to group everything under the > filter module but it doesn’t seem good. I’d prefer to keep this module > generic as much as possible and have “business” modules using it (XAR > import/export, Confluence import/export, MediaWiki,import/export, etc). > > Thanks > -Vincent > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > -- 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
