Reinitializes the SandBox space by using a SandBox space template

Description

Provides an application to reinitialize periodically the SandBox space by overwriting it with clean pages located in another space.

This application provides the following:

• A page to launch manually (and/or by scheduler) the SandBox reinitialisation, in SandboxTemplate.ReinitSandboxMacro
• A template space of Sandbox (i.e. list of clean Sandbox pages):
  • SandboxTemplate.WebHome (all languages are present)
  • SandboxTemplate.TestPage1
  • SandboxTemplate.TestPage2
  • SandboxTemplate.TestPage3
• Configured to forbid access to the SandboxTemplate space for XWikiAllGroup and Unregistered Users (SandboxTemplate.WebPreferences)
• A Scheduler job to launch automatically the reinitialisation, in Scheduler/Reinit Sandbox from SandboxTemplate

If you click on "Reinitialisation of Sandbox space (without confirmation)" in SandboxTemplate.ReinitSandboxMacro, the macro will

• erase ALL Sandbox space pages
• overwrite Sandbox by this space SandboxTemplate
• and unhide Sandbox space

Of course, it is recommended to backup your Sandbox space before and test with this link: "Mode Debug: 'Reinitialisation of Sandbox space' (without modification)"

With 1.1 version, it is possible to reinitialize periodically another space (rather than Sandbox) by overwriting it with an another space (rather than SandboxTemplate): to manipulate with caution!.

Addon:

To empty old Sandbox pages deleted from Trash bin, you can add this piece of code in scheduler task:
// set to 1 if you want to empty the trash bin for the whole wiki
def emptybin = 1
// Empty old Sandbox pages deleted from Trash bin
def query = "select distinct ddoc.fullName from XWikiDeletedDocument as ddoc where ddoc.fullName like 'Sandbox.%'"

def trashed = xwiki.search(query)
if(trashed.size() > 0) {
 def deleted = 0
 println "<strong>Trashed documents:</strong>\n"
for(trash in trashed) {
   println "* " + trash + " (" + xwiki.getDeletedDocuments(trash, "").size() + " versions)"
  if (emptybin == 1)
      xwiki.getDeletedDocuments(trash, "").each{
        xwiki.getXWiki().getRecycleBinStore().deleteFromRecycleBin(
            xwiki.getDocument(it.fullName).document,
            it.getId(),
            context,
           true);
        deleted++;
       }
  }
if (emptybin == 1) println "\nDeleted <strong>" + deleted + "</strong> trashed document. Trash bin is now empty."
}
else println "Everything's clean. No trashed document found."

Know bugs:

• English translation to be improved... :-)
• copy from SanboxTemplate.WebHome copies only one language (because of copyDocument function limitation) (fixed by 1.0 version)

Prerequisites & Installation Instructions

By default the macro is not scheduled. You must schedule it and choose periodicity in ... scheduler.