How to use the "source" parameter of the "code" macro to query a property

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#1

The
extension code macro describes the source parameter to show property values.

An attempt with something like

{{code source="object_property:XWiki.IFrameMacro.XWiki.WikiMacroClass.code" / }}

produces an irritating error message “Current user is not allowed to access document[…with the reference to the document containing the request …]”

I suppose I misunderstand the syntax.

The problem is not to get the result as I can do with calls like

{{groovy}}
"{{code}}"+xwiki.getDocument("XWiki.IFrameMacro").getObject("XWiki.WikiMacroClass").get("code")+"{{/code}}"
{{/groovy}}

or

{{velocity}}
{{code}}$xwiki.getDocument("XWiki.IFrameMacro").getObject("XWiki.WikiMacroClass").get("code"){{/code}}
{{/velocity}}

but using standard macros seems to me to be a better solution for documentation tasks.

#2

That’s because this is not the right syntax, you might want to take a look at Model Module (XWiki.org).

Just notice that it’s the code macro documentation which was wrong, actually, fixed that.

#3

Thanks - I inserted the ^

{{code source="object_property:XWiki.IFrameMacro^XWiki.WikiMacroClass.code" / }}

but I still get the irritating error message - now with the correct destination document. This happens with my own macros too.

My account belongs to the XWikiAdmin group (with all rights)

#4

I just reproduced that indeed and that’s a mistake I made, fixing that right away, and it will be part of 14.10.4 which is released beginning of next week.

#5

the problem when you do things like this (and the reason the source parameter was introduced) is that it’s very fragile: the content you insert might contain a {{/code}} string.

#6

Yes, this problem has affected me too. (Sorry, I kept the posting simple as a proof of concept)

I solved this by inserting some invisible spaces for critical character sequences, by adding an

.replaceAll(/(?s)\{\{/,'\u200B{\u200B{')

two times (!).

But it is better to get the function by a standard macro.

#7

While waiting for a fix of the object property source, a safer approach would be to use the script: source type as in:

{{velocity}}
#set ($codeContent = $xwiki.getDocument("XWiki.IFrameMacro").getObject("XWiki.WikiMacroClass").getValue("code"))
{{code source="script:codeContent"/}}
{{/velocity}}