Ratings Plugin

Last modified by Vincent Massol on 2021/03/17 21:41

starA plugin to handle ratings of wiki documents
TypePlugin
Category
Developed by

Ludovic Dubost, Jerome

Rating
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LicenseGNU Lesser General Public License 2.1

Description

This plugin is deprecated for newer version of XWiki (4.1+) and is replaced by the Ratings API which is component-based instead of being a plugin.

This plugin can be used together with the Ratings Application version 1.2 or less. 

Configuration

Supported parameters :

xwiki.cfg parameter key (XWiki.XWikiPreferences field name)DescriptionAccepted valuesDefault value
xwiki.ratings.ratingsmanagerThe fully qualified name of the class to be used as rating managercom.xpn.xwiki.plugin.ratings.internal.DefaultRatingsManager
com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.ratings.internal.SeparatePageRatingsManager
xwiki.ratings.averagerating.stored (ratings_averagerating_stored)Is the average rating stored in a XWiki object ?0 or 10
xwiki.ratings.reputation (ratings_reputation)Is user reputation feature activated ?0 or 10
xwiki.ratings.reputation.stored (ratings_reputation_stored)Is user reputation stored in a XWiki object ?0 or 10
xwiki.ratings.reputation.defaultmethod (ratings_reputation_defaultmethod)name of the methods used for calculating a user reputation. In the user profile, one object per calculation method will be stored, each one referencing the name of the method used.Coma-separated list of methodsaverage
xwiki.ratings.reputation.classnameThe default algorithm class to use for calculating user reputationThe fully qualified name of the class to be used as reputation algorithmcom.xpn.xwiki.plugin.ratings.internal.DefaultReputationAlgorythm
xwiki.ratings.reputation.groovypage (ratings_reputation_groovypage)The fullname of a document that contains an implementation of a reputation calculation algorithm written in groovyNone
xwiki.ratings.separatepagemanager.spacename (ratings_separatepagemanager_spacename)The name of the space to use to store ratings documents/objects when using the sepearate-page ratings managerThe name of the space to be usedNone (uses the same spaces as the page being rated)
xwiki.ratings.separatepagemanager.hasratingsforeachspace (ratings_separatepagemanager_hasratingsforeachspace)Should the separate page ratings manager use a space for each of the rated space?0 or 10

API

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package com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.ratings;

import com.xpn.xwiki.XWikiContext;
import com.xpn.xwiki.api.Document;
import com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.PluginApi;
import com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.ratings.Rating;

import java.util.List;
import java.util.ArrayList;

/**
 * @version $Id$
 */
public class RatingsPluginApi extends PluginApi<RatingsPlugin>
{
    public RatingsPluginApi(RatingsPlugin plugin, XWikiContext context)
    {
        super(plugin, context);
    }

    protected RatingsManager getRatingsManager()
    {
        return getRatingsPlugin().getRatingsManager(context);
    }

    protected RatingsPlugin getRatingsPlugin()
    {
        return ((RatingsPlugin) getProtectedPlugin());
    }

    protected static List<RatingApi> wrapRatings(List<Rating> ratings, XWikiContext context)
    {
        if (ratings == null) {
            return null;
        }

        List<RatingApi> ratingsResult = new ArrayList<RatingApi>();
        for (Rating rating : ratings) {
            ratingsResult.add(new RatingApi(rating, context));
        }
        return ratingsResult;
    }

    public RatingApi setRating(Document doc, String author, int vote)
    {
        // TODO protect this with programming rights
        // and add a setRating(docName), not protected but for which the author is retrieved from context.
        try {
            return new RatingApi(getRatingsPlugin().setRating(doc.getFullName(), author, vote, context), context);
        } catch (Throwable e) {
            context.put("exception", e);
            return null;
        }
    }

    public RatingApi getRating(Document doc, String author)
    {
        try {
            Rating rating =
                getRatingsPlugin()
                    .getRating(doc.getFullName(), author, context);
            if (rating == null) {
                return null;
            }
            return new RatingApi(rating, context);
        } catch (Throwable e) {
            context.put("exception", e);
            return null;
        }
    }

    public List<RatingApi> getRatings(Document doc, int start, int count)
    {
        return getRatings(doc, start, count, true);
    }

    public List<RatingApi> getRatings(Document doc, int start, int count, boolean asc)
    {
        try {
            return wrapRatings(getRatingsPlugin().getRatings(doc.getFullName(), start, count, asc, context), context);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            context.put("exception", e);
            return null;
        }
    }

    public AverageRatingApi getAverageRating(Document doc, String method)
    {
        try {
            return new AverageRatingApi(getRatingsPlugin().getAverageRating(doc.getFullName(), method, context),
                context);
        } catch (Throwable e) {
            context.put("exception", e);
            return null;
        }
    }

    public AverageRatingApi getAverageRating(Document doc)
    {
        try {
            return new AverageRatingApi(getRatingsPlugin().getAverageRating(doc.getFullName(), context), context);
        } catch (Throwable e) {
            context.put("exception", e);
            return null;
        }
    }

    public AverageRatingApi getAverageRating(String fromsql, String wheresql, String method)
    {
        try {
            return new AverageRatingApi(getRatingsPlugin().getAverageRating(fromsql, wheresql, method, context),
                context);
        } catch (Throwable e) {
            context.put("exception", e);
            return null;
        }
    }

    public AverageRatingApi getAverageRating(String fromsql, String wheresql)
    {
        try {
            return new AverageRatingApi(getRatingsPlugin().getAverageRatingFromQuery(fromsql, wheresql, context),
                context);
        } catch (Throwable e) {
            context.put("exception", e);
            return null;
        }
    }

    public AverageRatingApi getUserReputation(String username)
    {
        try {
            return new AverageRatingApi(getRatingsPlugin().getUserReputation(username, context), context);
        } catch (Throwable e) {
            context.put("exception", e);
            return null;
        }
    }
}

Prerequisites & Installation Instructions

Follow these steps:

  • Add the JAR in your container classpath (WEB-INF/lib)
  • Edit xwiki.cfg and add the following line to the list of plugins :
    xwiki.plugins=\
          [...]
           ... ,\
         <plugin package>
  • Restart your container
  • Verify the plugin is properly installed by typing the following in a wiki page :
    {{velocity}}
    $xwiki.<plugin name>.name
    {{/velocity}}

    If the installation has been successful, you will see <plugin name>.


For this plugin replace:

  • <plugin package> by com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.ratings.RatingsPlugin
  • <plugin name> by ratings

Release Notes

v1.2

  • Fixed a NPE when using the default ratings manager
  • By default average rating should be stored

v1.1

Changed the default ratings manager for the one that stores ratings object on the same page as the document being rated (was a rating manager that stores rating object in different pages).

Tags: ratings social
    

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