Attention: I'm not a developer, just only a sysadmin, i.e. I don't really know if this opens security holes. It should not affect other Alfresco components, but rmember - you've to do this at your own risk!
For those who still want to try the MediaWiki extension with the actual ALF CE releases: This way I got the extension running with ALF CE 3.2r and 3.3g (the hint came from the JIRA-ticket:
At first setup a SVN environment as discribed here or there (did this a few month in the past, don't remember the exact steps :wink: ), I use Eclipse Galileo with a complete HEAD copy, but it should be possible with the pure mediawiki extension sources from the SVN, but you will have to write your own build.xml-file, I guess. If you commonly deal with Java you might be able to use the pure sources with "javac" executable at the commandline.
Important is the MediaWiki Integration-tree, where the MediaWiki extension is located. In this subtree look at source/java/org/alfresco/module/mediawikiintegration/MediaWikiService.java. This is the module which has to be modified.
But at first have a look at the tree, none of its components must show red symbols at its icons (this belongs only to this special tree, it doesn't matter what other trees are showing). If there are some, you have to resolve these errors first, usually by correcting pathes or java compiler settings. For more information about this use the Alfresco Developer Guide.
To setup Eclipse to compile modules automatically makes things more easier.
Load the MediaWikiService.java into the editor by double click on it. Search for the following string: "public void onCreateNode" or klick "onCreateNode" in the object browser on the right side. This is the first procedure we want to change. Add the following lines:
// Added for repairing the broken MW amp
AuthenticationUtil.setRunAsUserSystem();
Now it should look like this:
public void onCreateNode(ChildAssociationRef childAssocRef)
{
// Added for repairing the broken MW amp
AuthenticationUtil.setRunAsUserSystem();
// The newly created mediawiki space
NodeRef mediawiki = childAssocRef.getChildRef();
// Set the default values for the various configuration properties
String wikiName = (String)this.nodeService.getProperty(mediawiki, ContentModel.PROP_NAME);
…
After saving the document Eclipse recompiles the class file automatically (if setted up to do this, otherwise do it manually).
Now it would be possible to implement the extension to a running Alfresco installation, but for working with it there is another necessary, otherwise you would not be able do delete wiki spaces later.
Go to the onDeleteNode procedure and add the code as shown above, it should look like this (the original procedure is empty):
public void onDeleteNode(ChildAssociationRef childAssocRef,
boolean isNodeArchived)
{
// Added for repairing the broken MW amp
AuthenticationUtil.setRunAsUserSystem();
}
Save (and compile) it again, change to a file manager and look for the file "MediaWikiService.class" in the Eclipse workspace path. In my installation it is located at "c:\workspace_alfresco\alfresco\HEAD\root\modules\MediaWiki Integration\build\classes\org\alfresco\module\mediawikiintegration\", but that depends on how you configured your dev-environment.
This file has now to be inserted into the alfresco-mediawiki-integration-<ALF-VERSION>.jar-file, which is part of the MediaWiki-AMP. download the AMP-File for your Alfresco version, for 3.3g you can use the 3.4dev-version from here, because no official package for 3.3g has been released.
Open the AMP-file with a zip program like 7-zip and got to the "lib"-folder. Open the the JAR-file (7-zip can do this without unpacking it) and copy the newly compiled "MediaWikiServices.class" into the subfolder "\org\alfresco\module\mediawikiintegration\" by overwriting the old file. Close the zip program and confirm the request for saving the changes.
Copy the modified AMP-file to your Alfresco server and install it the common way (don't forget to install the php integration module first) or inject it in a running - but broken by MediaWiki - Alfresco instance.
After installing it and cleaning the Tomcat working directories start Tomcat and have a look at the system/catalina log: it should show some database commands instead of java errors. If you can see this, you're done
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