Accessing wiki tables via REST

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#1

Hello All,

I’m wondering what the correct RESTful way to access elements in a table defined using standard xwiki markup is.
e.g.:

(% class="doOddEven filterable grid sortable" id="tableid" %)
(% class="sortHeader" %)|=Title 1|=Title 2
|Cell 11|Cell 12
|Cell 21|Cell 22

Ideally I would like to avoid writing a macro as I need to import a lot of documents from external sources and this would add an extra step. I presume it would also make future editing of the tables less user friendly as the tables would no longer be editable inline.

Thanks,
Ben

#2

You cannot access the XDOM directly in REST. You can access a page source though and then parse it locally. Or you can easily create a custom REST resource by creating a page with some groovy script (for ex), accessing the XDOM content of some page and return it. Then you would access the page using the /get/action.

See https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Documentation/UserGuide/Features/XWikiRESTfulAPI#HCustomresources

#3

Interesting, so essentially you’re suggesting I parse the XDOM content and build my table up as an array when requested, rather than make the user do it when creating the page.

Have I understood that right?

#4

hmm maybe it’s me not understanding your need. Could you explain it more precisely? For example I don’t understand what you mean by " build my table up as an array when requested, rather than make the user do it when creating the page.".

#5

So, the query will need to be able to return a value based on the column and row key, not necessarily the whole table. Leave it with me, I’ll give it a go.