Personal settings in OC

Rello · September 16, 2018, 7:34am

Hello all,

I have an issue getting personal settings up and running.

I added a separate section to index.xml (different handling to NC which is handled in one section)

Rello/audioplayer/blob/master/appinfo/info.xml#L53-L55


		<settings-sections>
		<personal>OCA\audioplayer\Settings\PersonalSection</personal>
	</settings-sections>

the personal settings is here

github.com

Rello/audioplayer/blob/master/lib/Settings/PersonalSection.php

<?php
/**
 * Audio Player
 *
 * This file is licensed under the Affero General Public License version 3 or
 * later. See the LICENSE.md file.
 *
 * @author Marcel Scherello <audioplayer@scherello.de>
 * @copyright 2016-2018 Marcel Scherello
 */

namespace OCA\audioplayer\Settings;

use OCP\IL10N;
use OCP\IURLGenerator;
use OCP\Settings\IIconSection;

class PersonalSection implements IIconSection
{
    /** @var IURLGenerator */

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but the error in .log is
Interface 'OCP\\Settings\\IIconSection' not found at \/mnt\/usb\/var\/www\/owncloud\/apps\/audioplayer\/lib\/Settings\/PersonalSection.php#18"

any suggestion?

alfredb · September 16, 2018, 4:31pm

AFICS there is no \OCP\Settings\IIconSection, but an \OCP\Settings\ISection.

DeepDiver1975 · September 19, 2018, 5:38am

This is one of the sad stories where the APIs are no longer compatible between ownCloud and Nextcloud

In ownCloud you need to register the settings like this https://github.com/owncloud/core/blob/24b799903c9b21df604ab3f9a89fbb0d6bce0b9e/apps/files_external/appinfo/info.xml#L40

These panel classes are implemented in here: https://github.com/owncloud/core/tree/master/apps/files_external/lib/Panels

I fear you have to create two different packages with different info.xml

@Rello let me know if you need more support on this.

Rello · September 20, 2018, 7:28pm

thank you Thomas!
I finally got it working!

info.xml is actually not the issue. it looks kind of double when having an own section - NC is using the first one and oC the second one. As they can co-exist (just tested), its fine from an app-dev point of view

	<settings>
		<personal>OCA\audioplayer\Settings\Personal</personal>
		<personal-section>OCA\audioplayer\Settings\PersonalSection</personal-section>
	</settings>
	<settings-sections>
		<personal>OCA\audioplayer\Settings\PersonalSection</personal>
	</settings-sections>

within Personal.php you need two functions returning the same. again double - but ok.

public function getSection() **NC**
public function getSectionID() **oC**

If an app only uses one of the existing categories - you are done here.
But it gets interesting when using an own section

within PersonalSection.php, there are 2 basic differences.

class PersonalSection implements ISection **oC extended with getIconName()**
class PersonalSection implements IIconSection **NC extendet with getIcon()**

So this would be the time to introduce two different PersonalSettings.php
Or do you have a suggestion to evaluate if the one or the other class is available?

Rello · September 20, 2018, 7:29pm

the happy result…

DeepDiver1975 · September 24, 2018, 6:05am

Cool! Congrats! I’m glad you got it working!