[xwiki-devs] [Discussion] extract out an xwiki-openoffice module from xwiki-officeimporter module ?

2009-12-19 Thread Asiri Rathnayake
Hello Devs, Currently xwiki-officeimporter contains logic for mainly two different tasks: 1. Manage the back-end openoffice process (and provide document conversion facilities). 2. Perform the actual transformation from office documents to wiki pages. (depends on point 1) xwiki-officeimporter

Re: [xwiki-devs] [Discussion] extract out an xwiki-openoffice module from xwiki-officeimporter module ?

2009-12-19 Thread Vincent Massol
Hi Asiri, Right now I don't see any use case for reusing an openoffice module outside of the office importer/exporter. My current view: - we could extract this module but as a nested submodule of xwiki- officeimporter (could be renamed xwiki-office and have 3 submodules:

Re: [xwiki-devs] [Discussion] extract out an xwiki-openoffice module from xwiki-officeimporter module ?

2009-12-19 Thread Sergiu Dumitriu
On 12/19/2009 10:52 AM, Asiri Rathnayake wrote: Hello Devs, Currently xwiki-officeimporter contains logic for mainly two different tasks: 1. Manage the back-end openoffice process (and provide document conversion facilities). 2. Perform the actual transformation from office documents to

Re: [xwiki-devs] [Discussion] extract out an xwiki-openoffice module from xwiki-officeimporter module ?

2009-12-19 Thread Asiri Rathnayake
Hi, Will this module be useful outside the import/export feature? Can you think of any standalone usage? Other than import / export features, No. What I had in mind is something like what vincent suggested. I also have to agree that doing this kind of a separation just for the sake of

[xwiki-devs] Are velocity bridges part of public API?

2009-12-19 Thread Asiri Rathnayake
Hi Devs, I just realized that I've been having a velocity bridge class inside an *.internal package for sometime. I think this is wrong because velocity bridges are part of our public API (?). Moving this bridge to a non-internal package would not harm because it would not break any existing

Re: [xwiki-devs] [Discussion] extract out an xwiki-openoffice module from xwiki-officeimporter module ?

2009-12-19 Thread Asiri Rathnayake
Hi, Same issue here, why would you need the exporter as a separate platform module? IMO, you should have a single platform module for the office import/export functionality, and have the server management, importer and exporter as nested modules. This is what vincent has suggested (is it