A good faq entry or even better a good code snippet example for a
tutorial on XEM development.
-Vincent
On Sep 19, 2008, at 10:26 AM, Thomas Mortagne wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 12:55 AM, mh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: mh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Date: Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 11:44 AM
>> Subject: Getting the domain name of a virtual wiki through velocity
>> To: XWiki Developers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have an XEM set up with with several virtual wikis on it. I'm
>> trying
>> to get the name of the virtual xwiki though velocity. For example,
>> say
>> that I have a XEM instance running two virtual wikis:
>>
>> 1) wikiA.domain.org
>> 2) wikiB.domain.org
>>
>> on a XEM called xem.domain.org
>>
>> Im looking for the velocity code that will return the name (domain
>> name) when embedded in a page of one of the virtual wikis. Something
>> like: $xwiki.getServerName()
>>
>> if i put that in a page in wikiA, it should return
>> "wikiA.domain.org".
>> Likewise, if i put the same code in wikiB, it should return
>> "wikiB.domain.org"
>>
>> I looked at the velocity code for
>> xem.doman.org/xwiki/bin/view/WikiManager/ because it lists the actual
>> domain names under the "Domain Names" column. But it just gets a list
>> of any virtual wikis available and lists them out. This page uses the
>> xwikimanager plugin. I looked at the api and didn't see a way to
>> directly get the domain name of the wiki in question. Could someone
>> please point me in the right direction? Thanks in advanced and have a
>> great day!
>
> The domain name of a wiki is part of it's descriptor (like the owner
> of the wiki etc.) and you can get the descriptor using
> $wikimanager.getWikiFromName("wikiName"). Then this Wiki object
> contains the list of aliasses of this wiki you can get using
> getWikiAliasList() if you want them all or getFirstWikiAlias() if you
> just want the one generally used when generating URLs like
> [wikiname:Sapce.Page]. Here you can find all you see when you look at
> XWiki/XWikiServerWikiname : owner, server, description... and some
> helper like serverUrl, homePageUrl etc.
>
> So to sumurize your use case in velocity (given that your wiki name is
> "wikiname"):
>
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> #set($wikiDesc = $wikimanager.getWikiFromName("wikiname"))
> #set($wikiAlias = $wikiDesc.firstWikiAlias)
>
> the server url of wiki "wikiname" is $wikiAlias.serverUrl and it's
> home page is at $wikiAlias.homePageUrl
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>> -mh
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