Hello,

For the UI itself, maybe the filter builder from smartGWT could be 
useful here : 
http://www.smartclient.com/smartgwt/showcase/#featured_filter_builder_grid

Jerome.

Artem Melentyev wrote:
> Hi, devs.
>
> I have a small review of XWIKI-1090: XWiki Query Generator, 
> XWikiQuery/makeQuery
> in order to move it to new XWQLanguage instead of old QueryPlugin.
>
>  >This features allows to generate a Query UI and the corresponding 
> query automatically to run on the storage engine.
>  >The displaySearch APIs allow to display the query UI and makeQuery 
> allow to generate the query
>
> It is easy to rewrite syntax to XWQL, but there are some problems in design.
>
> 1. To make it run on XWQL we just need to replace QueryPlugin#makeQuery 
> with something similar.
> I propose:
>
> 1.1 move XWikiCriteria to xwiki-query/manager module
> (it is not depend on core. except only one util method)
>
> 1.2 add
> Query QueryManager#createQuery(XWikiCriteria)
> as analogue to QueryPlugin#makeQuery
>
> 1.3 fix all affected references.
>
> There are one method that need be bridged (xwiki-bridge) for this: 
> BaseClass#makeQuery.
> I don't like to bridge it, so looking other ways.
>
> 2. General overview of query generator:
>
> It is very connected with core and distributed across many classes. This 
> is not good for our component architecture.
> There are:
>   UI Generator:
>    XWiki#displaySearch*
>    PropertyClass#displaySearch* and overrides
>    XWikiDocument#displaySearch
>
>   Query Generator:
>    XWiki#createQueryFromRequest
>    BaseClass#makeQuery
>    PropertyClass#makeQuery, #fromSearchMap and overrides
>
>   Executers:
>    XWiki#search*(XWikiQuery, ...)
>
> I'm doing 1. now.
> Query Generator redesign(2) is not important for now, I think. It works 
> well.
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