`<TMPL_VAR FIELD_AUTHOR>` or something? (For those who want the current
behaviour, an auxiliary plugin would be easy.)
+> No, please. The idea is to be *able* to override field names if one wishes to, and choose, for yourself, non-colliding field names if one wishes not to. I don't wish to lose the power of being able to, say, define a page title with YAML format if I want to, or to write a site-specific plugin which calculates a page title, or other nifty things.
+>It's not like one is going to lose the fields defined by the meta plugin; if "author" is defined by \[[!meta author=...]] then that's what will be found by "field" (provided the "meta" plugin is registered; that's what the "field_register" option is for).
+>--[[KathrynAndersen]]
+
+>> Hmm. I suppose if you put the title (or whatever) in the YAML, then
+>> "almost" all the places in IkiWiki that respect titles will do the
+>> right thing due to the pagetemplate hook, with the exception being
+>> anything that has special side-effects inside `meta` (like `date`),
+>> or anything that looks in `$pagestate{foo}{meta}` directly
+>> (like `map`). Is your plan that `meta` should register itself by
+>> default, and `map` and friends should be adapted to
+>> work based on `getfield()` instead of `$pagestate{foo}{meta}`, then?
+>>
+>> (On the site I mentioned, I'm using an unmodified version of `field`,
+>> and currently working around the collision by tagging books' pages
+>> with `bookauthor` instead of `author` in the YAML.) --s
+
From a coding style point of view, the `$CamelCase` variable names aren't
IkiWiki style, and the `match_foo` functions look as though they could benefit
from being thin wrappers around a common `&IkiWiki::Plugin::field::match`
I think the documentation would probably be clearer in a less manpage-like
and more ikiwiki-like style?
+> I don't think ikiwiki *has* a "style" for docs, does it? So I followed the Perl Module style. And I'm rather baffled as to why having the docs laid out in clear sections... make them less clear. --[[KathrynAndersen]]
+
+>> I keep getting distracted by the big shouty headings :-)
+>> I suppose what I was really getting at was that when this plugin
+>> is merged, its docs will end up split between its plugin
+>> page, [[plugins/write]] and [[ikiwiki/PageSpec]]; on some of the
+>> contrib plugins I've added I've tried to separate the docs
+>> according to how they'll hopefully be laid out after merge. --s
+
If one of my branches from [[todo/allow_plugins_to_add_sorting_methods]] is
accepted, a `field()` cmp type would mean that [[plugins/contrib/report]] can
stop reimplementing sorting. Here's the implementation I'm using, with
your "sortspec" concept (a sort-hook would be very similar): if merged,
I think it should just be part of `field` rather than a separate plugin.
- # Copyright © 2010 Simon McVittie, released under GNU LGPL >= 2.1
+ # Copyright © 2010 Simon McVittie, released under GNU GPL >= 2
package IkiWiki::Plugin::fieldsort;
use warnings;
use strict;