1 As documented in [[plugins/write]], the current `renamepage` hook is
2 heavily oriented towards updating links in pages' content: it is run
3 once per page linking to the renamed page.
5 That's fine, but it can't be used to trigger more general actions on
6 page rename. E.g. it won't be run at all if the page being renamed is
9 This is a real issue for the [[plugins/contrib/po]] development: what
10 I'm about to achieve is:
12 - when a master page is renamed, the plugin takes notice of it (using
13 the `rename` hook), and later renames the translation pages
14 accordingly (in the `change` hook)
15 - when a master page is deleted, the plugin deletes its translations
16 (using the `delete` hook)
18 With the current `renamepage` hook behavior, combining these two goals
19 has an annoying drawback: a plugin can't notice an orphan master page
20 has been renamed, so instead of renaming (and preserving) its
21 translations, it considers the oldpage as deleted, and deletes its
22 translations. Game over.
24 It may seem like a corner case, but I want to be very careful when
25 deleting files automatically in `srcdir`, which is not always under
28 As a sad workaround, I can still disable any deletion in `srcdir`
29 when it is not under version control. But I think ikiwiki deserves
30 a global `renamepage` hook that would be run once per rename
35 - keep the documented `renamepage` hook as it is
36 - use something inspired by the trick `preprocess` uses: when `hook`
37 is passed an optional "global" parameter, set to a true value, the
38 declared `renamepage` hook is run once per rename operation, and is
39 passed named parameters: `src`, `srcfile`, `dest` and `destfile`.
41 I'm of course volunteering to implement this, or anything related that
42 would solve my problem. Hmmm? --[[intrigeri]]
44 > I think it would be better to have a different hook that is called for
45 > renames, since the two hook actions are very different (unlike the
46 > preprocess hook, which does a very similar thing in scan mode).
48 > Just calling it `rename` seems like a reasonable name, by analogy with
49 > the `delete` and `change` hooks.
51 > It might make sense to rename `renamepage` to `renamelink` to make it
52 > clearer what it does. (I'm not very worried about this breaking things, at
53 > this point.) --[[Joey]]
55 >> In my `po` branch, I renamed `renamepage` to `renamelink`, and
56 >> created a `rename` hook that is passed a reference to `@torename`.
59 >>> As Joey highlights it on [[plugins/contrib/po]], it's too late to
60 >>> merge such a change, as the 3.x plugin API is released and should
61 >>> not be broken. I will thus keep the existing `renamepage` as it
62 >>> is, and call `rename` the global hook I need. --[[intrigeri]]
64 >>>> Done in my `po` branch. --[[intrigeri]]
66 I think I see a problem in the rename hook. The hook is called
67 before the plugin adds any subpages to the set of pages to rename.
68 So, if the user choses to rename subpages, po will not notice
69 they are moving, and will not move their po files.
71 Perhaps the hooks should be moved to come after subpages are added.
72 This would, though, mean that if the hook somehow decides to add
73 entirely other pages to the list, their subpages would not be
76 I also have some qualms about the design of the hook. In particular,
77 passing the mutable array reference probably makes it impossible
78 to use from external plugins. Instead it could return any additional
79 rename hashes it wants to add. Or, if the ability to modify existing
80 hashes is desired, it could return the full set of hashes.
84 > I fixed the last part, i.e. a rename hook function now returns the
85 > full set of hashes. As I also converted it to take named parameters,
86 > such a function still is passed a reference to the original array,
87 > though, because one can't build a hash containing an array of hashes
88 > as a value, without passing this array as a reference.
92 > I'm not entirely sure about your first concern. Calling the hook
93 > before or after the subpages addition both have their own problems.
95 > What about running the hook before *and* after the subpages
96 > addition, with an additional `when` named parameter, so that
97 > a given hook function can choose to act only before or after, or both?
101 >> Have you thought about making the hook be run once *per* file that is
102 >> selected to be renamed? This would even handle the case where two
103 >> plugins use the hook; plugin A would see when plugin B adds a new file
104 >> to be renamed. And the subpage renaming stuff could probably be moved
105 >> into the rename hook too. --[[Joey]]
107 >>> I've implemented this nice solution in my po branch, please review.
108 >>> I'm slowly coming back to do the last bits needed to get my po and
109 >>> meta branch merged. --[[intrigeri]]