it's not really hard. This page is a complete reference to everything a
plugin might want to do. There is also a quick [[tutorial]].
-[[toc levels=2]]
+[[!toc levels=2]]
## Types of plugins
Plugins should, when imported, call `hook()` to hook into ikiwiki's
processing. The function uses named parameters, and use varies depending on
-the type of hook being registered -- see below. Note that a plugin can call
-the function more than once to register multiple hooks. All calls to
-`hook()` should be passed a "type" parameter, which gives the type of
-hook, a "id" paramter, which should be a unique string for this plugin, and
-a "call" parameter, which tells what function to call for the hook.
+the type of hook being registered -- see below. A plugin can call
+the function more than once to register multiple hooks.
+
+All calls to `hook()` should be passed a "type" parameter, which gives the
+type of hook, a "id" parameter, which should be a unique string for this
+plugin, and a "call" parameter, which tells what function to call for the
+hook.
An optional "last" parameter, if set to a true value, makes the hook run
after all other hooks of its type. Useful if the hook depends on some other
### needsbuild
-
-
hook(type => "needsbuild", id => "foo", call => \&needsbuild);
This allows a plugin to manipulate the list of files that need to be
array of pages that will be rebuilt, and can modify the array, either
adding or removing files from it.
+### scan
+
+ hook(type => "scan", id => "foo", call => \&scan);
+
+This hook is called early in the process of building the wiki, and is used
+as a first pass scan of the page, to collect metadata about the page. It's
+mostly used to scan the page for WikiLinks, and add them to `%links`.
+Present in IkiWiki 2.40 and later.
+
+The function is passed named parameters "page" and "content". Its return
+value is ignored.
+
### filter
hook(type => "filter", id => "foo", call => \&filter);
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.
-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
[[ikiwiki/PreProcessorDirective]] output is sanitised, which may limit what
Plugins that implement linkify must also implement a scan hook, that scans
for the links on the page and adds them to `%links`.
-### scan
-
- hook(type => "scan", id => "foo", call => \&scan);
-
-This hook is called early in the process of building the wiki, and is used
-as a first pass scan of the page, to collect metadata about the page. It's
-mostly used to scan the page for WikiLinks, and add them to `%links`.
-Present in IkiWiki 2.40 and later.
-
-The function is passed named parameters "page" and "content". Its return
-value is ignored.
-
### htmlize
hook(type => "htmlize", id => "ext", call => \&htmlize);
-Runs on the raw source of a page and turns it into html. The id parameter
+Runs on the source of a page and turns it into html. The id parameter
specifies the filename extension that a file must have to be htmlized using
this plugin. This is how you can add support for new and exciting markup
languages to ikiwiki.
a cgi. This hook allows modifying the variables available on those
templates. The function is passed named parameters. The "page" and
"destpage" parameters are the same as for a preprocess hook. The "template"
-parameter is a [[cpan HTML::Template]] object that is the template that
+parameter is a [[!cpan HTML::Template]] object that is the template that
will be used to generate the page. The function can manipulate that
template object.
Use this to implement html sanitization or anything else that needs to
modify the body of a page after it has been fully converted to html.
-The function is passed named parameters: "page" and "content", and
-should return the sanitized content.
+The function is passed named parameters: "page", "destpage", and "content",
+and should return the sanitized content.
+
+### postscan
+
+ hook(type => "postscan", id => "foo", call => \&postscan);
+
+This hook is called once the full page body is available (but before the
+format hook). The most common use is to update search indexes. Added in
+ikiwiki 2.54.
+
+The function is passed named parameters "page" and "content". Its return
+value is ignored.
### format
The difference between format and sanitize is that sanitize only acts on
the page body, while format can modify the entire html page including the
-header and footer inserted by ikiwiki, the html document type, etc.
+header and footer inserted by ikiwiki, the html document type, etc. (It
+should not rely on always being passed the entire page, as it won't be
+when the page is being previewed.)
The function is passed named parameters: "page" and "content", and
should return the formatted content.
hook(type => "auth", id => "foo", call => \&auth);
-This hook can be used to implement a different authentication method than
-the standard web form. When a user needs to be authenticated, each registered
-auth hook is called in turn, and passed a CGI object and a session object.
+This hook can be used to implement an authentication method. When a user
+needs to be authenticated, each registered auth hook is called in turn, and
+passed a CGI object and a session object.
If the hook is able to authenticate the user, it should set the session
object's "name" parameter to the authenticated user's name. Note that
hook(type => "formbuilder_setup", id => "foo", call => \&formbuilder_setup);
hook(type => "formbuilder", id => "foo", call => \&formbuilder);
-These hooks allow tapping into the parts of ikiwiki that use [[cpan
+These hooks allow tapping into the parts of ikiwiki that use [[!cpan
CGI::FormBuilder]] to generate web forms. These hooks are passed named
parameters: `cgi`, `session`, `form`, and `buttons`. These are, respectively,
the `CGI` object, the user's `CGI::Session`, a `CGI::FormBuilder`, and a
hook(type => "savestate", id => "foo", call => \&savestate);
-This hook is called wheneven ikiwiki normally saves its state, just before
+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.
+## renamepage
+
+ hook(type => "renamepage", id => "foo", call => \&renamepage);
+
+This hook is called by the [[plugins/rename]] plugin when it renames
+something. The hook is passed named parameters: `page`, `oldpage`,
+`newpage`, and `content`, and should try to modify the content to reflect
+the name change. For example, by converting links to point to the new page.
+
+### getsetup
+
+ hook(type => "getsetup", id => "foo", call => \&getsetup);
+
+This hooks is not called during normal operation, but only when setting up
+the wiki, or generating a setup file. Plugins can use this hook to add
+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
+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
+describing the option. For example:
+
+ return
+ option_foo => {
+ type => "boolean",
+ description => "enable foo",
+ safe => 1,
+ rebuild => 1,
+ },
+ option_bar => {
+ type => "string",
+ example => "hello",
+ description => "what to say",
+ safe => 1,
+ rebuild => 0,
+ },
+
+* `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.
+* `link` is a link to further information about the option. This can either
+ be a wikilink, or an url.
+* `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.
+
## Plugin interface
To import the ikiwiki plugin interface:
- use IkiWiki '1.00';
+ use IkiWiki '2.00';
This will import several variables and functions into your plugin's
namespace. These variables and functions are the ones most plugins need,
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
use `%pagestate{$page}{$id}{$key}=$value`, and to retrieve the value,
use `%pagestate{$page}{$id}{$key}`.
-`$key` can be any string you like, but `$id` must be the same as the "id"
-parameter passed to `hook()` when registering the plugin. This is so
-ikiwiki can know when to delete pagestate for plugins that are no longer
-used.
+The `$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
+as the "id" parameter passed to `hook()` when registering the plugin. This
+is so ikiwiki can know when to delete pagestate for plugins that are no
+longer used.
When pages are deleted, ikiwiki automatically deletes their pagestate too.
function that is called after the error message is printed, to do any final
cleanup.
-Note that while any plugin can use this for a fatal error, plugins should
-try to avoid dying on bad input, as that will halt the entire wiki build
-and make the wiki unusable. So for example, if a
-[[ikiwiki/PreProcessorDirective]] is passed bad parameters, it's better to
-return an error message, which can appear on the wiki page, rather than
-calling error().
+If called inside a preprocess hook, error() does not abort the entire
+wiki build, but instead replaces the [[ikiwiki/PreProcessorDirective]] with
+a version containing the error message.
+
+In other hooks, error() is a fatal error, so use with care. Try to avoid
+dying on bad input when building a page, as that will halt
+the entire wiki build and make the wiki unusable.
#### `template($;@)`
-Creates and returns a [[cpan HTML::Template]] object. The first parameter
+Creates and returns a [[!cpan HTML::Template]] object. The first parameter
is the name of the file in the template directory. The optional remaining
parameters are passed to `HTML::Template->new`.
This is the standard gettext function, although slightly optimised.
-#### `urlto($$)`
+#### `urlto($$;$)`
Construct a relative url to the first parameter from the page named by the
second. The first parameter can be either a page name, or some other
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.
+
#### `targetpage($$)`
Passed a page and an extension, returns the filename that page will be
rendered to.
-## Internal use pages
+## Miscellaneous
+
+### Internal use pages
Sometimes it's useful to put pages in the wiki without the overhead of
having them be rendered to individual html files. Such internal use pages
PageSpecs glob patterns, but instead only by a special `internal()`
[[ikiwiki/PageSpec]].
-## RCS plugins
+### RCS plugins
+
+ikiwiki's support for [[revision_control_systems|rcs]] is also done via
+plugins. See [[RCS_details|rcs/details]] for some more info.
+
+RCS plugins must register a number of hooks. Each hook has type 'rcs',
+and the 'id' field is set to the name of the hook. For example:
+
+ hook(type => "rcs", id => "rcs_update", call => \&rcs_update);
+ hook(type => "rcs", id => "rcs_prepedit", call => \&rcs_prepedit);
+
+#### `rcs_update()`
+
+Updates the working directory with any remote changes.
+
+#### `rcs_prepedit($)`
+
+Is passed a file to prepare to edit. It can generate and return an arbitrary
+token, that will be passed into `rcs_commit` when committing. For example,
+it might return the current revision ID of the file, and use that
+information later when merging changes.
+
+#### `rcs_commit($$$;$$)`
+
+Passed a file, message, token (from `rcs_prepedit`), user, and ip address.
+Should try to commit the file. Returns `undef` on *success* and a version
+of the page with the rcs's conflict markers on failure.
+
+#### `rcs_commit_staged($$$)`
+
+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($)`
+
+Adds the passed file to the archive. The filename is relative to the root
+of the srcdir.
-ikiwiki's support for [[revision_control_systems|rcs]] also uses pluggable
-perl modules. These are in the `IkiWiki::RCS` namespace, for example
-`IkiWiki::RCS::svn`.
+Note that this should not check the new file in, it should only
+prepare for it to be checked in when rcs_commit (or `rcs_commit_staged`) is
+called. Note that the file may be in a new subdir that is not yet in
+to version control; the subdir can be added if so.
-Each RCS plugin must support all the `IkiWiki::rcs_*` functions.
-See IkiWiki::RCS::Stub for the full list of functions. It's ok if
-`rcs_getctime` does nothing except for throwing an error.
+#### `rcs_remove($)`
-See [[RCS_details|rcs/details]] for some more info.
+Remove a file. The filename is relative to the root of the srcdir.
-## PageSpec plugins
+Note that this should not check the removal in, it should only prepare for it
+to be checked in when `rcs_commit` (or `rcs_commit_staged`) is called. Note
+that the new file may be in a new subdir that is not yet inversion
+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($)`
+
+This is used to get the page creation time for a file from the RCS, by looking
+it up in the history.
+
+It's ok if this is not implemented, and throws an error.
+
+### PageSpec plugins
It's also possible to write plugins that add new functions to
[[PageSpecs|ikiwiki/PageSpec]]. Such a plugin should add a function to the
against. It may also be passed additional, named parameters. It should return
a IkiWiki::SuccessReason object if the match succeeds, or an
IkiWiki::FailReason object if the match fails.
+
+### Setup plugins
+
+The ikiwiki setup file is loaded using a pluggable mechanism. If you look
+at the top of a setup file, it starts with 'use IkiWiki::Setup::Standard',
+and the rest of the file is passed to that module's import method.
+
+It's possible to write other modules in the `IkiWiki::Setup::` namespace that
+can be used to configure ikiwiki in different ways. These modules should,
+when imported, populate `$IkiWiki::Setup::raw_setup` with a reference
+to a hash containing all the config items. They should also implement a
+`gendump` function.
+
+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)`