Guillaume,
Thanks for the lead and the quick response. The BB application does indeed
look like it does something very close to what I need to replicate. I will
spend some time digging through the code until I understand it and will post
again if I can't figure it out. Looks very promising.
I have already discovered that the main thing I was missing in my previous
code were the getProperties() and getProperty() methods.
This code solved my initial problem:
#foreach($entry in $doc.getObjects('XWiki.EntryClass'))
#foreach($prop in $entry.getProperties())
$entry.getProperty("$prop.getName()").getValue()
#end
#end
Thanks again,
aaron
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Guillaume Lerouge <guilla...@xwiki.com>wrote:
> Hi Aaron,
>
> the bulletin board application does this on topic pages:
>
> http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Bulletin+Board+Application#HTopics
>
> You can download it, install it locally and look at its code to see how
> it's
> done.
>
> In any case, you can definitely have several objects on the page. You can
> also edit your code as such in order to get each individual object and then
> act on it:
>
> #foreach($entry in $doc.getObjects("XWiki.EntryClass"))
> #set($entryObj = $doc.getObject($entry))
> $entry.prop1
> $entry.prop2
> #end
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Guillaume
>
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 23:59, Ashtar Communications <
> ashtarcommunicati...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > At the outset - I admit to being a complete and total newbie at this.
> > Apologize for asking what are probably dumb questions - and likely to be
> > lots more than one. Any help people would be willing to give me would be
> > much appreciated.
> >
> > I have been through all the tutorials, the API JavaDoc, and as many
> > examples
> > of code as I could find, but I still can't seem to find anything that
> looks
> > directly applicable or works when I try to adapt it.
> >
> > What I'm ultimately trying to do seems pretty straightforward. I would
> like
> > to have a set of pages which each contain structured data that can be
> > modified, added, or deleted one object at a time, and which display in
> > reverse chronological order. I would like each of those objects to be
> > displayed with specific HTML formatting. Eventually, I will also need to
> be
> > able to interact with those objects using the REST API. My current
> > understanding of the process I need to use to get started is this:
> >
> > 1) Create a new Class (We'll call it "Entry") with specific properties
> > 2) Create the Class Sheet and Template. The Template includes a link to
> the
> > Class Sheet for displaying instances of the class.
> > 3) Edit the Class Sheet to get the attached objects to display properly
> > 4) Create a new page from the Template, add several instances of the
> class
> > to it - they should then display on the new page.
> >
> > First two steps are easy - but the first place that I am hung up is
> > figuring
> > out how to get the Class Sheet to display multiple objects of the same
> > class
> > attached to the same page.
> >
> > I have a page with 3 objects of the Entry class attached (with different
> > info in the properties). Ultimately the info and formatting will need to
> be
> > more complex, but I can't even get the basics to work - this is what I
> have
> > tried so far:
> >
> > ****START CODE****
> > #foreach($entry in $doc.getObjects("XWiki.EntryClass"))
> > #foreach($prop in $entry.properties)
> > : $doc.display($prop.getName())
> > #end
> > #end
> > ****END CODE***
> >
> > The problem is that this code displays the info for the first object
> three
> > times, instead of the unique properties for each class. The fact that it
> > displays three times seems to indicate that the loop is correctly going
> > through each object in the document - but it is obviously not
> incrementing
> > the properties to the next $entry. Sure it's a simple syntax error, but
> > don't know what it is.
> >
> > I also can't tell from the JavaDoc enough about how to use .display() or
> > the
> > properties of a vector to know how to do basic things like display the
> > number of objects or the name of each one. Can't figure out how to
> interact
> > with objects very well, basically.
> >
> > Side question - Should I be using one object per page and then including
> > pages instead of having multiple objects on one page? I have worked my
> way
> > through the TOC demo, and it seems that each TOC entry is saved on a
> > separate page - and the livetable macro is then used on the "display"
> page
> > to populate the table with all the entries.
> >
> > Thank you in advance,
> >
> > Aaron
> >
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