Widgets in content pages.

[tzyganu]

When trying to add a widget to a cms page, the widget chooser comes out blank.
If I add a widget manually to the content like this:

 {{widget type="Magento\Catalog\Block\Product\Widget\NewWidget" template="product/widget/new/content/new_grid.phtml"}}

The widget is not rendered in the frontend because the result of the $params = $this->_getIncludeParameters($construction[2]); call in the widgetDirective method is:

array(
    'type' => 'MagentoCatalogBlockProductWidgetNewWidget'
    'template' => 'product/widget/new/content/new_grid.phtml'
)

So the backslashed are stripped. Not sure if this is an issue for be only because I'm working on a windows OS. Most probably is not.
If I double the backslashes

 {{widget type="Magento\\Catalog\\Block\\Product\\Widget\\NewWidget" template="product/widget/new/content/new_grid.phtml"}}

the widget is rendered on frontend, but in the backend the widget icon does not appear when I have the wysiwyg editor enabled.

And a side issue. The route for backend for the widget module looks like this:

 <router id="admin">
    <route id="adminhtml">
        <module name="Magento_Widget" before="Magento_Adminhtml" />
    </route>
</router>

But there is no Magento_Adminhtml module anymore. Also I thought the adminhtml route will be removed.

[verklov]

@tzyganu, thank you for reporting this issue! We created the ticket and forwarded it to the team for fixing. We will update you once we resolve it.

[tzyganu]

This seams almost fixed. The UI for selecting a widget is working, but the image for the widget is not displayed.

[verklov]

@tzyganu, we are glad to inform you that the team has fixed this issue. The code with the fix has just been deployed to the GitHub. Looking forward to new contributions from you.