Hi, On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 8:18 PM, Vincent Massol <vinc...@massol.net> wrote:
> > > On 14 Oct 2016, at 19:03, Thomas Mortagne <thomas.morta...@xwiki.com> > wrote: > > > > This does not make any sense at general Extension level. > > > > Could be custom metadata that apply to XAR extensions. Since that only > > make sense for XAR extensions I would prefer to have this be > > implemented as a xobject as usual. > > Yes, it could be implemented as a UIXP/XObject of the Extension UI. > > > For me this is already the job of the uix we use for application panel > > so I don't really see the point of adding something else. > > It’s not enough at all. That was my main point and explanation. Apparently > I failed to explain the problem correctly. > > I’ll give more details: > * You install a XAR extension that provides a ConfigurableClass (but you > don’t know that as a user) > I would say that an application would need both and Entry Point (i.e. homepage) but also an optional Configuration section (i.e. administration section defined by either a ConfigurableClass entry or even something custom). Thanks, Eduard > * After you’ve installed that extension, as a user, you don’t know what to > do. You need to go read the doc for the app to understand where you need to > go to start using it. > > So I’m really convinced we need something better than what we have now. > > Now after we move the Applications UIXP to the xwiki-platform-applications > module, we could add an “entrypoint’ property in the UIXP but that would > mean that the Extension Manager UI module would depend on > xwiki-platform-applications. We would need to decide if it’s ok. I think it > is since it can be considered as an application descriptor and I don’t see > a problem of having the EM UI module know about application descriptors. > > WDYT? > > Thanks > Vincent > > > On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 4:10 PM, Vincent Massol <vinc...@massol.net> > wrote: > >> Hi devs, > >> > >> Problem > >> ======= > >> > >> We have 2 issues right now when installing an extension in XWiki: > >> > >> 1) It’s not clear where is the entry point of that extension. > >> - Example1: an app that is only for admins and only has a > ConfigurableClass > >> - Example2: an app that provides a macro and doesn’t have a UI > >> > >> 2) Even when an extension registers itself in the Applications Panel, > the user still need to refresh the page or navigate away to see it. > >> > >> Proposal > >> ======== > >> > >> * Introduce the concept of Entry point (a.k.a home page) in Extension > metadata > >> * Have the EM UI display the extension’s entry point (when there’s one) > after having installed the extension so that the user can click on it and > be taken to the home page of the extension. > >> > >> This would make extensions more discoverable IMO. > >> > >> Implementation Details > >> ================== > >> > >> * Some maven extension metadata properties in pom.xml > >> > >> * A format to represent an entry point. It shouldn’t be a full URL > since that needs to be computed at runtime. Basically it should contain: > >> ** The document reference > >> ** The action to use (view, admin, etc) - optional, should default to > “view" > >> ** The query string to use - optional, should default to an empty query > string > >> > >> This corresponds to the notion of ResourceReference > (EntityResourceReference to be precise). However we don’t have any textual > representation of it ATM. > >> > >> WDYT? Good idea? Bad idea? > >> > >> Thanks > >> -Vincent > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> devs mailing list > >> devs@xwiki.org > >> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > > > > > > > > -- > > Thomas Mortagne > > _______________________________________________ > > devs mailing list > > devs@xwiki.org > > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > devs@xwiki.org > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list devs@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
