X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/0e7896690b8dbeb7c74fc0ce1f954159861fc8b3..ea753782b222bf4ba2fb4683b6363afdd9055b64:/doc/todo/plugin.mdwn diff --git a/doc/todo/plugin.mdwn b/doc/todo/plugin.mdwn index 901e8e55e..b3e3a7889 100644 --- a/doc/todo/plugin.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/plugin.mdwn @@ -1,15 +1,75 @@ Suggestions of ideas for plugins: +* enable editable, non-htmlized files + + Some months ago, before upgrading my wiki, I used svn to check in an XML file + and a companion XSL file for client-side styling. That was cool, ikiwiki + copied them over unchanged and the file could be linked to as `\[[foo|foo.xml]]`. + + I even had the XSL produce an `Edit` link at the top, because I wanted a simple + way for a web user to edit the XML. But I had to hack stuff to make the edit CGI + not say `foo.xml is not an editable page`. + + I did that in a kind of slash-and-burn way, and apparently that's the one change + that was uncommitted when I upgraded ikiwiki, so now it's in the same place + as the wikiwyg project. On the bright side, that's a chance to think about how to + do it better. + + Any suggestions for appropriate uses of existing plugins, or the plugin API, + to selectively add to the set of files in the working copy that the edit CGI + will consider editable? --ChapmanFlack 17July2008 + + > It looks like 80% of the job would be accomplished by hooking `htmlize` for + > the `.xml` extension. That would satisfy the `pagetype` test that causes + > the edit CGI to say `not an editable page`. (That happens too early for a + > `canedit` hook.) The `htmlize` hook could just + > copy in to out unchanged (this is an internal wiki, I'm not thinking hard + > about evil XML content right now). For extra credit, an `editcontent` hook + > could validate the XML. (Can an `editcontent` hook signal a content error?) + + > The tricky bit seems to be to register the fact that the target file should + > have extension `.xml` and not `.html`. Maybe what's needed is a generalized + > notion of an `htmlize` hook, one that specifies its output extension as well + > as its input, and isn't assumed to produce html? --ChapmanFlack 17July2008 + + > Belay that, there's nothing good about trying to use `htmlize` for this; too + > many html-specific assumptions follow. For now I'm back to an embarrassing quick + > hack that allows editing my xml file. But here's the larger generalization I + > think this is driving at: + + > IkiWiki is currently a tool that can compile a wiki by doing two things: + > 1. Process files of various input types _foo_ into a single output type, html, by + > finding suitable _foo_->html plugins, applying various useful transformations + > along the way. + > 1. Process files of other input types by copying them with no useful transformations at all. + + > What it could be: a tool that compiles a wiki by doing this: + > 1. Process files of various input types _foo_ into various output types _bar_, by + > finding suitable _foo_->_bar_ plugins, applying various useful transformations along + > the way, but only those that apply to the _foo_->_bar_ conversion. + > 1. The second case above is now just a special case of 1 where _foo_->_foo_ for any + > unknown _foo_ is just a copy, and no other transformations apply. + + > In some ways this seems like an easy and natural generalization. `%renderedfiles` + > is already mostly there, keeping the actual names of rendered files without assuming + > an html extension. There isn't a mechanism yet to say which transformations for + > linkification, preprocessing, etc., apply to which in/out types, but it could be + > easily added without a flag day. Right now, they _all_ apply to any input type for + > which an `htmlize` hook exists, and _none_ otherwise. That rule could be retained + > with an optional hook parameter available to override it. + + > The hard part is just that right now the assumption of html as the one destination + > type is in the code a lot. --ChapmanFlack + + >> Readers who bought this also liked: [[format_escape]], [[multiple_output_formats]] + >> --[[JeremieKoenig]] + * list of registered users - tricky because it sorta calls for a way to rebuild the page when a new user is registered. Might be better as a cgi? > At best, this could only show the users who have logged in, not all > permitted by the current auth plugin(s). HTTP auth would need > web-server-specific code to list all users, and openid can't feasibly do so > at all. --[[JoshTriplett]] -* It would be nice to be able to have a button to show "Differences" (or - "Show Diff") when editing a page. Is that an option that can be enabled? - Using a plugin? - * For PlaceWiki I want to be able to do some custom plugins, including one that links together subpages about the same place created by different users. This seems to call for a plugin that applies to every page w/o any @@ -46,15 +106,13 @@ Suggestions of ideas for plugins: > Not sure what you mean, the [[plugins/contrib]] page lists contributed plugins, and each of their pages tells where to download the plugin from.. --[[Joey]] -* I was thinking about a tex plugin, to handle tex4ht files. I have since discovered that pandoc on the output from tex4ht seems to be good enough. --[[DavidBremner]] +* I wrote a very crude wrapper around tex4ht to render TeX files. I hesitate to give it a contrib/plugins page in its current state, but if someone wants to play, [here](http://www.cs.unb.ca/~bremner/wiki/software/ikiwiki/tex4ht.pm) it is.--[[DavidBremner]] * Setting default values for the meta plugin in the setup file, particularly author, license, and copyright, would be useful There is work in progress at [[plugins/contrib/default_content_for___42__copyright__42___and___42__license__42__]] -- [[DavidBremner]] -* What about a translator plugin using source-highlight or some alternative to view a collection of source code. I have a collection -of e.g. java for students to look at. I'd like to e.g. update the tags in the java file, then rebuild the wiki. A first hack, can be found in -[my wiki](http://www.cs.unb.ca/~bremner/wiki/software/java.pm) -Among many possible improvements would be generalizing to handle other languages. I have to play some more. +* Would it make sense to have a hook to set the page name? This would solve a problem I see with +[[source_code_highlighting|plugins/contrib/sourcehighlight]] -- [[DavidBremner]]