[xwiki-users] New to XWiki

[Carlos Correa]

Hello,

I'm a CS major in my 2nd year of school. I've been using XWiki for a
personal wiki project and have run into a wall with a few things. I've
frequently run into issues where I give a group the access rights to
view a page, which overrides default settings and forces me to specify
viewing permissions for the groups that should have access to that
page based on the space settings. This is quite cumbersome when there
are many groups that should have access to the page. Are there plans
to include a feature that would optionally allow the page to inherit
permissions from the space and merge them with the current page
settings?

Thanks, Carlos
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[xwiki-users] File Explorer for Unix FS

[Carlos Correa]

One of the users of the xwiki server (*nix) that I'm helping with has
an interesting feature request. He wants a wiki page with a listing of
Microsoft Office files that are in a unix directory. He wants to be
able to click on one of the file names and have it download.

I don't know enough about xwiki to know how to cause a download to
occur on the user's side. The only solution I can think of is
attaching the files to the page and scripting regular updating (which
is very clunky). Is there a more elegant way to cause downloads to
occur on the user's end without adding the file as an attachment?

Thanks,
Carlos
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Re: [xwiki-users] File Explorer for Unix FS

[Carlos Correa]

This is a bit of a late reply, but I've implemented this and am
wondering what you would recommend doing about security with this
approach.

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu  wrote:
>
> On 07/15/2010 04:55 PM, Carlos Correa wrote:
> > One of the users of the xwiki server (*nix) that I'm helping with has
> > an interesting feature request. He wants a wiki page with a listing of
> > Microsoft Office files that are in a unix directory. He wants to be
> > able to click on one of the file names and have it download.
> >
> > I don't know enough about xwiki to know how to cause a download to
> > occur on the user's side. The only solution I can think of is
> > attaching the files to the page and scripting regular updating (which
> > is very clunky). Is there a more elegant way to cause downloads to
> > occur on the user's end without adding the file as an attachment?
>
> Well, XWiki is a java application, so the easiest thing to do is to
> write a Java component that does this. Assuming you have a recent
> version of XWiki, you should:
> - write a scriptable service which can list the files on the filesystem;
> should be a ScriptService component if you're targeting XWiki 2.3 or
> later, or a VelocityContextInitializer for earlier; see
> http://code.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Modules/ComponentModule for general
> documentation about components
> - write a servlet or a struts action which can be used to retrieve the
> contents of the file; make sure you're not creating a security hole,
> check the absolute path requested by the user; a good example would be
> http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/platform/core/trunk/xwiki-core/src/main/java/com/xpn/xwiki/web/TempResourceAction.java
> - register the above servlet/struts action in web.xml, respectively
> struts-config.xml
>
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> Sergiu Dumitriu
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