Hello Vincent,

On Sun, Sep 23, 2018 at 3:08 PM Vincent Massol <vinc...@massol.net> wrote:
>
> Hi Adel,
>
> FTR the issue https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-15582 is missing several 
> piece of info:
> * affects version
> * component

Thanks, I've updated the issue.

> Regarding the topic, it seems that XWIKI-15582 corresponds to what Thomas has 
> suggested, right?

Yes.

> Sounds good to me.
>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
>

Thanks,
Adel

> > On 7 Sep 2018, at 16:45, Adel Atallah <adel.atal...@xwiki.com> wrote:
> >
> > I've created a Jira issue, I would appreciate to have some feedback or
> > changes if needed: https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-15582
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Adel
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 3:02 PM, Thomas Mortagne
> > <thomas.morta...@xwiki.com> wrote:
> >> On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 2:58 PM Adel Atallah <adel.atal...@xwiki.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi devs,
> >>>
> >>> Working on the auto-suggestion feature [1], I've been integrating it
> >>> in xproperties holding a reference to a page. Those xproperties are of
> >>> type String and have been changed to the Page type so that the page
> >>> displayer is used and shows the auto-suggestion when needed.
> >>
> >> Since we talk about new entity properties types and bring back the
> >> following subject: a pity the type is called "page" since it actually
> >> contain document reference and collide with the new page reference.
> >> But hard to change now...
> >>
> >> We'll need to introduce a new type which store serialized
> >> PageReference at some point since that's what most new xobjects should
> >> use ideally. But it can't be used for existing property which
> >> currently contain document references since the syntax is different.
> >>
> >> The best to avoid confusion with two different "page*" types names
> >> would probably be to have the PageClass have a type which could be:
> >> * document (set to existing page properties with a migration)
> >> * page (the default)
> >> * space ?
> >>
> >> BaseClass#addPageField hasn't been released yet (@since 10.8RC1) so
> >> it's the right time, later we would have to keep "document" as the
> >> default in it which would not be very elegant since we want people to
> >> use page reference in the future as much as possible.
> >>
> >>>
> >>> I now need to implement an auto-suggestion on xproperties holding a
> >>> reference to a space (e.g [2]), a wiki (e.g [2]) and an attachment
> >>> (e.g. [3]).
> >>> I think the best would be to create an Attachment and Wiki xproperty
> >>> type and create new displayers exactly like the Page type.
> >>>
> >>> I don't think we can create a Space xproperty because it's not meant
> >>> to be visible by the end user.
> >>> Maybe we could use the Page xproperty type and have a parameter inside
> >>> to select only spaces.
> >>>
> >>> WDYT?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Adel
> >>>
> >>> --------
> >>> [1] 
> >>> https://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/AutocompleteOnReference
> >>> [2] 
> >>> https://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/AutocompleteOnReference#HClass:XWiki.WatchListClass
> >>> [3] 
> >>> https://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/AutocompleteOnReference#HClass:XWiki.XWikiUsers
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Thomas Mortagne
>

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