po plugin: create missing POT/PO files in needsbuild hook

[git.ikiwiki.info.git] / doc / plugins / write.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/plugins/write.mdwn b/doc/plugins/write.mdwn
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--- a/doc/plugins/write.mdwn
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@@ -123,34 +123,42 @@ make arbitrary changes. The function is passed named parameters "page",
 
 ### preprocess
 
 
 ### preprocess
 

-Adding a [[ikiwiki/PreProcessorDirective]] is probably the most common use
+Adding a preprocessor [[ikiwiki/directive]] is probably the most common use

 of a plugin.
 
         hook(type => "preprocess", id => "foo", call => \&preprocess);
 
 of a plugin.
 
         hook(type => "preprocess", id => "foo", call => \&preprocess);
 

-Replace "foo" with the command name that will be used inside brackets for
-the preprocessor directive.
-
-Each time the directive is processed, the referenced function (`preprocess`
-in the example above) is called, and is passed named parameters. A "page"
-parameter gives the name of the page that embedded the preprocessor
-directive, while a "destpage" parameter gives the name of the page the
-content is going to (different for inlined pages), and a "preview"
-parameter is set to a true value if the page is being previewed. All
-parameters included in the directive are included as named parameters as
-well. Whatever the function returns goes onto the page in place of the
+Replace "foo" with the command name that will be used for the preprocessor

 directive.
 
 directive.
 

-An optional "scan" parameter, if set to a true value, makes the hook be
-called during the preliminary scan that ikiwiki makes of updated pages,
-before begining to render pages. This parameter should be set to true if
-the hook modifies data in `%links`. Note that doing so will make the hook
-be run twice per page build, so avoid doing it for expensive hooks. (As an
-optimisation, if your preprocessor hook is called in a void contets, you
-can assume it's being run in scan mode.)
+Each time the directive is processed, the referenced function (`preprocess`
+in the example above) is called. Whatever the function returns goes onto
+the page in place of the directive. Or, if the function aborts using
+`error()`, the directive will be replaced with the error message.
+
+The function is passed named parameters. First come the parameters set
+in the preprocessor directive. These are passed in the same order as
+they're in the directive, and if the preprocessor directive contains a bare
+parameter (example: `\[[!foo param]]`), that parameter will be passed with
+an empty value.
+
+After the parameters from the preprocessor directive some additional ones
+are passed: A "page" parameter gives the name of the page that embedded the
+preprocessor directive, while a "destpage" parameter gives the name of the
+page the content is going to (different for inlined pages), and a "preview"
+parameter is set to a true value if the page is being previewed.
+
+If `hook` is passed an optional "scan" parameter, set to a true value, this
+makes the hook be called during the preliminary scan that ikiwiki makes of
+updated pages, before begining to render pages. This should be done if the
+hook modifies data in `%links`. Note that doing so will make the hook be
+run twice per page build, so avoid doing it for expensive hooks. (As an
+optimisation, if your preprocessor hook is called in a void context, you
+can assume it's being run in scan mode, and avoid doing expensive things at
+that point.)

 
 Note that if the [[htmlscrubber]] is enabled, html in
 
 Note that if the [[htmlscrubber]] is enabled, html in

-[[ikiwiki/PreProcessorDirective]] output is sanitised, which may limit what
+preprocessor [[ikiwiki/directive]] output is sanitised, which may limit what

 your plugin can do. Also, the rest of the page content is not in html
 format at preprocessor time. Text output by a preprocessor directive will
 be linkified and passed through markdown (or whatever engine is used to
 your plugin can do. Also, the rest of the page content is not in html
 format at preprocessor time. Text output by a preprocessor directive will
 be linkified and passed through markdown (or whatever engine is used to


@@ -180,10 +188,15 @@ languages to ikiwiki.
 The function is passed named parameters: "page" and "content" and should
 return the htmlized content.
 
 The function is passed named parameters: "page" and "content" and should
 return the htmlized content.
 

+If `hook` is passed an optional "keepextension" parameter, set to a true
+value, then this extension will not be stripped from the source filename when
+generating the page.
+

 ### pagetemplate
 
        hook(type => "pagetemplate", id => "foo", call => \&pagetemplate);
 
 ### pagetemplate
 
        hook(type => "pagetemplate", id => "foo", call => \&pagetemplate);
 

+

 [[Templates|wikitemplates]] are filled out for many different things in
 ikiwiki, like generating a page, or part of a blog page, or an rss feed, or
 a cgi. This hook allows modifying the variables available on those
 [[Templates|wikitemplates]] are filled out for many different things in
 ikiwiki, like generating a page, or part of a blog page, or an rss feed, or
 a cgi. This hook allows modifying the variables available on those


@@ -348,7 +361,7 @@ This hook is called whenever ikiwiki normally saves its state, just before
 the state is saved. The function can save other state, modify values before
 they're saved, etc.
 
 the state is saved. The function can save other state, modify values before
 they're saved, etc.
 

-## renamepage
+### renamepage

 
        hook(type => "renamepage", id => "foo", call => \&renamepage);
 
 
        hook(type => "renamepage", id => "foo", call => \&renamepage);
 


@@ -367,38 +380,83 @@ configuration options.
 
 The hook is passed no parameters. It returns data about the configuration
 options added by the plugin. It can also check if the plugin is usable, and
 
 The hook is passed no parameters. It returns data about the configuration
 options added by the plugin. It can also check if the plugin is usable, and

-die if the plugin is not available, which will cause the plugin to not be
-offered in the configuration interface.
+die if not, which will cause the plugin to not be offered in the configuration
+interface.

 
 The data returned is a list of `%config` options, followed by a hash
 
 The data returned is a list of `%config` options, followed by a hash

-describing the option. For example:
+describing the option. There can also be an item named "plugin", which
+describes the plugin as a whole. For example:

 
                 return
                        option_foo => {
                                type => "boolean",
 
                 return
                        option_foo => {
                                type => "boolean",

-                               default => 0,
-                               description => "enable foo",
+                               description => "enable foo?",
+                               advanced => 1,

                                safe => 1,
                                rebuild => 1,
                        },
                        option_bar => {
                                type => "string",
                                example => "hello",
                                safe => 1,
                                rebuild => 1,
                        },
                        option_bar => {
                                type => "string",
                                example => "hello",

-                               description => "what to say",
+                               description => "option bar",

                                safe => 1,
                                rebuild => 0,
                        },
                                safe => 1,
                                rebuild => 0,
                        },

+                       plugin => {
+                               description => "description of this plugin",
+                               safe => 1,
+                               rebuild => 1,
+                       },

 
 

-* `type` can be "boolean", "string", "integer", or `undef` (use for complex
-  types). Note that the type is the type of the leaf values; the `%config`
-  option may be an array or hash of these.
-* `default` should be set to the default value of the option, if any.
-* `example` can be set to an example value, which will not be used by default.
+* `type` can be "boolean", "string", "integer", "pagespec",
+  or "internal" (used for values that are not user-visible). The type is
+  the type of the leaf values;  the `%config` option may be an array or
+  hash of these.
+* `example` can be set to an example value.

 * `description` is a short description of the option.
 * `description` is a short description of the option.

+* `link` is a link to further information about the option. This can either
+  be a wikilink, or an url.
+* `advanced` can be set to true if the option is more suitable for advanced
+  users.

 * `safe` should be false if the option should not be displayed in unsafe
   configuration methods, such as the web interface. Anything that specifies
   a command to run, a path on disk, or a regexp should be marked as unsafe.
 * `safe` should be false if the option should not be displayed in unsafe
   configuration methods, such as the web interface. Anything that specifies
   a command to run, a path on disk, or a regexp should be marked as unsafe.

-* `rebuild` should be true if changing the option will require a wiki rebuild.
+  If a plugin is marked as unsafe, that prevents it from being
+  enabled/disabled.
+* `rebuild` should be true if changing the option (or enabling/disabling
+  the plugin) will require a wiki rebuild, false if no rebuild is needed,
+  and undef if a rebuild could be needed in some circumstances, but is not
+  strictly required.
+
+### targetpage
+
+       hook(type => "targetpage", id => "foo", call => \&targetpage);
+
+This hook can be used to override the name of the file a page should
+be compiled into. 
+
+It should return the target filename.
+
+### tweakurlpath
+
+       hook(type => "tweakurlpath", id => "foo", call => \&tweakurlpath);
+
+This hook can be used to modify the internal urls generated by
+ikiwiki; it is run just after ikiwiki has removed the trailing
+`index.html`, in case `usedirs` is enabled.
+
+It should return the modified url.
+
+### tweakbestlink
+
+       hook(type => "tweakbestlink", id => "foo", call => \&tweakbestlink);
+
+This hook can be used to modify the page returned by `bestlink`. It is
+passed named parameters `page` and `link`. These are, respectively,
+the page where the link will appear and the link ikiwiki would choose
+as the best one, if no `tweakbestlink` hook was in effect.
+
+It should return the modified link.

 
 ## Plugin interface
 
 
 ## Plugin interface
 


@@ -419,14 +477,14 @@ it's not exported, the wise choice is to not use it.
 
 A plugin can access the wiki's configuration via the `%config`
 hash. The best way to understand the contents of the hash is to look at
 
 A plugin can access the wiki's configuration via the `%config`
 hash. The best way to understand the contents of the hash is to look at

-[[ikiwiki.setup]], which sets the hash content to configure the wiki.
+your ikiwiki setup file, which sets the hash content to configure the wiki.

 
 ### %pagestate
 
 The `%pagestate` hash can be used by plugins to save state that they will need
 next time ikiwiki is run. The hash holds per-page state, so to set a value,
 
 ### %pagestate
 
 The `%pagestate` hash can be used by plugins to save state that they will need
 next time ikiwiki is run. The hash holds per-page state, so to set a value,

-use `%pagestate{$page}{$id}{$key}=$value`, and to retrieve the value,
-use `%pagestate{$page}{$id}{$key}`.
+use `$pagestate{$page}{$id}{$key}=$value`, and to retrieve the value,
+use `$pagestate{$page}{$id}{$key}`.

 
 The `$value` can be anything that perl's Storable module is capable of
 serializing. `$key` can be any string you like, but `$id` must be the same
 
 The `$value` can be anything that perl's Storable module is capable of
 serializing. `$key` can be any string you like, but `$id` must be the same


@@ -439,6 +497,15 @@ When pages are deleted, ikiwiki automatically deletes their pagestate too.
 Note that page state does not persist across wiki rebuilds, only across
 wiki updates.
 
 Note that page state does not persist across wiki rebuilds, only across
 wiki updates.
 

+### %wikistate
+
+The `%wikistate` hash can be used by a plugin to store persistant state
+that is not bound to any one page. To set a value, use
+`$wikistate{$id}{$key}=$value, where `$value` is anything Storable can
+serialize, `$key` is any string you like, and `$id` must be the same as the
+"id" parameter passed to `hook()` when registering the plugin, so that the
+state can be dropped if the plugin is no longer used.
+

 ### Other variables
 
 If your plugin needs to access data about other pages in the wiki. It can
 ### Other variables
 
 If your plugin needs to access data about other pages in the wiki. It can


@@ -476,7 +543,7 @@ function that is called after the error message is printed, to do any final
 cleanup.
 
 If called inside a preprocess hook, error() does not abort the entire
 cleanup.
 
 If called inside a preprocess hook, error() does not abort the entire

-wiki build, but instead replaces the [[ikiwiki/PreProcessorDirective]] with
+wiki build, but instead replaces the preprocessor [[ikiwiki/directive]] with

 a version containing the error message.
 
 In other hooks, error() is a fatal error, so use with care. Try to avoid
 a version containing the error message.
 
 In other hooks, error() is a fatal error, so use with care. Try to avoid


@@ -494,6 +561,9 @@ parameters are passed to `HTML::Template->new`.
 Passed a page name, returns the base name that will be used for a the html
 page created from it. (Ie, it appends ".html".)
 
 Passed a page name, returns the base name that will be used for a the html
 page created from it. (Ie, it appends ".html".)
 

+Use this when constructing the filename of a html file. Use `urlto` when
+generating a link to a page.
+

 #### `add_depends($$)`
 
 Makes the specified page depend on the specified [[ikiwiki/PageSpec]].
 #### `add_depends($$)`
 
 Makes the specified page depend on the specified [[ikiwiki/PageSpec]].


@@ -596,6 +666,23 @@ a type that ikiwiki knowns how to htmlize. Otherwise, returns undef.
 Given the name of a source file, returns the name of the wiki page
 that corresponds to that file.
 
 Given the name of a source file, returns the name of the wiki page
 that corresponds to that file.
 

+#### `pagetitle($)`
+
+Give the name of a wiki page, returns a version suitable to be displayed as
+the page's title. This is accomplished by de-escaping escaped characters in
+the page name. "_" is replaced with a space, and '__NN__' is replaced by 
+the UTF character with code NN.
+
+#### `titlepage($)`
+
+This performs the inverse of `pagetitle`, ie, it converts a page title into
+a wiki page name.
+
+#### `linkpage($)`
+
+This converts text that could have been entered by the user as a
+[[WikiLink]] into a wiki page name.
+

 #### `srcfile($;$)`
 
 Given the name of a source file in the wiki, searches for the file in
 #### `srcfile($;$)`
 
 Given the name of a source file in the wiki, searches for the file in


@@ -634,6 +721,12 @@ destination file, as registered by `will_render`.
 If the third parameter is passed and is true, an absolute url will be
 constructed instead of the default relative url.
 
 If the third parameter is passed and is true, an absolute url will be
 constructed instead of the default relative url.
 

+#### `newpagefile($$)`
+
+This can be called when creating a new page, to determine what filename
+to save the page to. It's passed a page name, and its type, and returns
+the name of the file to create, relative to the srcdir.
+

 #### `targetpage($$)`
 
 Passed a page and an extension, returns the filename that page will be
 #### `targetpage($$)`
 
 Passed a page and an extension, returns the filename that page will be


@@ -656,15 +749,107 @@ PageSpecs glob patterns, but instead only by a special `internal()`
 
 ### RCS plugins
 
 
 ### RCS plugins
 

-ikiwiki's support for [[revision_control_systems|rcs]] also uses pluggable
-perl modules. These are in the `IkiWiki::RCS` namespace, for example
-`IkiWiki::RCS::svn`. 
+ikiwiki's support for [[revision_control_systems|rcs]] is also done via
+plugins. See [[RCS_details|rcs/details]] for some more info.
+
+RCS plugins must register a number of hooks. Each hook has type 'rcs', 
+and the 'id' field is set to the name of the hook. For example:
+       
+       hook(type => "rcs", id => "rcs_update", call => \&rcs_update);
+       hook(type => "rcs", id => "rcs_prepedit", call => \&rcs_prepedit);
+
+#### `rcs_update()`
+
+Updates the working directory with any remote changes.
+
+#### `rcs_prepedit($)`

 
 

-Each RCS plugin must support all the `IkiWiki::rcs_*` functions.
-See IkiWiki::RCS::Stub for the full list of functions. It's ok if
-`rcs_getctime` does nothing except for throwing an error.
+Is passed a file to prepare to edit. It can generate and return an arbitrary
+token, that will be passed into `rcs_commit` when committing. For example,
+it might return the current revision ID of the file, and use that
+information later when merging changes.

 
 

-See [[RCS_details|rcs/details]] for some more info.
+#### `rcs_commit($$$;$$)`
+
+Passed a file, message, token (from `rcs_prepedit`), user, and ip address.
+Should try to commit the file. Returns `undef` on *success* and a version
+of the page with the rcs's conflict markers on failure.
+
+#### `rcs_commit_staged($$$)`
+
+Passed a message, user, and ip address. Should commit all staged changes.
+Returns undef on success, and an error message on failure.
+
+Changes can be staged by calls to `rcs_add, `rcs_remove`, and
+`rcs_rename`.
+
+#### `rcs_add($)`
+
+Adds the passed file to the archive. The filename is relative to the root
+of the srcdir.
+
+Note that this should not commit the new file, it should only
+prepare for it to be committed when rcs_commit (or `rcs_commit_staged`) is
+called. Note that the file may be in a new subdir that is not yet in
+to version control; the subdir can be added if so.
+
+#### `rcs_remove($)`
+
+Remove a file. The filename is relative to the root of the srcdir.
+
+Note that this should not commit the removal, it should only prepare for it
+to be committed when `rcs_commit` (or `rcs_commit_staged`) is called. Note
+that the new file may be in a new subdir that is not yet in version
+control; the subdir can be added if so.
+
+#### `rcs_rename($$)`
+
+Rename a file. The filenames are relative to the root of the srcdir.
+
+Note that this should not commit the rename, it should only
+prepare it for when `rcs_commit` (or `rcs_commit_staged`) is called.
+The new filename may be in a new subdir, that is not yet added to
+version control. If so, the subdir will exist already, and should
+be added to revision control.
+
+#### `rcs_recentchanges($)`
+
+Examine the RCS history and generate a list of recent changes.
+The parameter is how many changes to return.
+
+The data structure returned for each change is:
+
+       {
+               rev => # the RCSs id for this commit
+               user => # name of user who made the change,
+               committype => # either "web" or the name of the rcs,
+               when => # time when the change was made,
+               message => [
+                       { line => "commit message line 1" },
+                       { line => "commit message line 2" },
+                       # etc,
+               ],
+               pages => [
+                       {
+                               page => # name of page changed,
+                               diffurl => # optional url to a diff of changes
+                       },
+                       # repeat for each page changed in this commit,
+               ],
+       }
+
+#### `rcs_diff($)`
+
+The parameter is the rev from `rcs_recentchanges`.
+Should return a list of lines of the diff (including \n) in list
+context, and the whole diff in scalar context.
+
+#### `rcs_getctime($)`
+
+This is used to get the page creation time for a file from the RCS, by looking
+it up in the history.
+
+It's ok if this is not implemented, and throws an error.

 
 ### PageSpec plugins
 
 
 ### PageSpec plugins
 


@@ -679,16 +864,45 @@ IkiWiki::FailReason object if the match fails.
 
 ### Setup plugins
 
 
 ### Setup plugins
 

-The ikiwiki setup file is loaded using a pluggable mechanism. If you
-look at the top of [[ikiwiki.setup]], it starts with 
-'use IkiWiki::Setup::Standard', and the rest of the file is passed to
-that module's import method.
+The ikiwiki setup file is loaded using a pluggable mechanism. If you look
+at the top of a setup file, it starts with 'use IkiWiki::Setup::Standard',
+and the rest of the file is passed to that module's import method.

 
 It's possible to write other modules in the `IkiWiki::Setup::` namespace that
 can be used to configure ikiwiki in different ways. These modules should,
 when imported, populate `$IkiWiki::Setup::raw_setup` with a reference
 
 It's possible to write other modules in the `IkiWiki::Setup::` namespace that
 can be used to configure ikiwiki in different ways. These modules should,
 when imported, populate `$IkiWiki::Setup::raw_setup` with a reference

-to a hash containing all the config items.
+to a hash containing all the config items. They should also implement a
+`gendump` function.
+
+By the way, to parse a ikiwiki setup file and populate `%config`, a
+program just needs to do something like:
+`use IkiWiki::Setup; IkiWiki::Setup::load($filename)`
+
+### Javascript
+
+Some plugins use javascript to make ikiwiki look a bit more web-2.0-ish.
+
+All javascript code should be put in `.js` files in the `javascript`
+underlay, and plugins using those files can enable use of the underlay by
+calling `add_underlay("javascript");` in their `import` function.
+
+You'll have to arrange for `<script>` tags to be added to the pages that
+use your javascript. This can be done using a `format` hook.
+
+Ikiwiki provides some utility functions in `ikiwiki.js`, for use by other
+javascript code. These include:
+
+#### `getElementsByClass(cls, node, tag)` 
+
+Returns an array of elements with the given class. The node and tag are
+optional and define what document node and element names to search.
+
+#### `hook(name, call)`
+
+The function `call` will be run as part of the hook named `name`.
+
+Note that to hook into `window.onload`, you can use the `onload' hook.
+
+#### `run_hooks(name)`

 
 

-By the way, to parse a ikiwiki setup file, a program just needs to
-do something like:
-`use IkiWiki::Setup; my %setup=IkiWiki::Setup::load($filename)`
+Runs the hooks with the specified name.