On Jun 29, 2009, at 4:05 PM, Thomas Mortagne wrote: > Hi devs, > > We need to decide something for http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-3413 > > I propose to take Vincent's proposal and have a parameter "outputType" > in the URL which provide the syntax identifier of the renderer to use. > > Also since syntax identifier contains "/" which i never remember the > escaped version when i need it i propose to support short names by > looking at available renderers and take the last version of the asked > syntax (which mean the only renderer of this syntax most of the time > anyway but I prefer having something in case of). > > So for example you could ask for the page Space.Page printed as plain > text and without UI with the URL: > > http://host/xwiki/bin/view/Space/Page?outputType=plain&xpage=plain > > or the full form > > http://host/xwiki/bin/view/Space/Page?outputType=plain%2F1.0&xpage=plain > > I don't like xpage=plain but it already exists and is doing exactly > this, printing the content of the document without UI. We can decide > latter if we want a new parameter for this. > > Feel free to propose another name, I'm not sure of "outputType" but i > could not find a better one and "renderer" seems too technical.
+1 for short name. We could also have an optional outputVersion rather than the full name with the "/". I'd prefer this it separates more clearly the namespaces and there's no need for special parsing (it would work with a syntax which has a "/" in its name for example). +1 in general. Thanks -Vincent > On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 13:15, Vincent Massol<[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> On May 4, 2009, at 12:46 PM, Jean-Vincent Drean wrote: >> >>> On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Thomas Mortagne >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Hi devs, >>>> >>>> In 2.0 architecture we have no way currently to print a strongly >>>> formatted text (like JSON) or simply a plain text without XHTML >>>> which >>>> we are doing generally using xpage=plain in XWiki 1.0 >>> >>> With the 1.0 syntax xpage=plain was mainly used to: >>> 1/ Output data in special format (JSON, xls, etc). In those cases >>> {pre} was used to avoid xhtml transformations. >>> 2/ Output xhtml content without the XWiki UI, I can think of one use >>> case where this content was put in ajax tooltips. >>> >>> Is 2/ covered ? Do we need a xpage=xhtml for it ? >>> Note that xpage=xpart&vm=contentview.vm can be used as a workaround. >> >> If you we want to have something clean for the future it seems to me >> that having a parameter called outputType (or simply output, or type, >> or contentType) which can take all renderer values would be best. >> >> For ex outputType=xhtml, xwiki, text, pdf, rtf, etc >> >> And when not specified it would default to outputType=xhtml. >> >> For removing the UI I'd use another parameter since it's orthogonal. >> Something like showUI=true|false >> >> Thanks >> -Vincent _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
