Data migration framework

Documents stored in XWiki can contain structured data, in the form of XObjects. The structure of these XObjects are defined by XClasses, that can also be created in XWiki documents. Learn more about how XWiki manages XClasses and XObjects here.

Most of the application that we create inside XWiki depends on this model, as it is really easy to access and edit (through a simple page edition). However, once a data model (through XClasses) is defined by an application, it is hard to rework it. On the contrary to databases where it is possible to create migration scripts, XWiki doesn't have this possibility yet.

The goal of this project is to make improvements to an already existing migration framework (see the documentation and the code). This framework 

2019

Proposed