X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/669a5f5ecc0d50daf96d8dc2af219c94c8625fb4..50a8f03bb7c18be56e760538a263b52c85aea94d:/doc/bugs/template_creation_error.mdwn diff --git a/doc/bugs/template_creation_error.mdwn b/doc/bugs/template_creation_error.mdwn index d1fb788f5..9d6915b09 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/template_creation_error.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/template_creation_error.mdwn @@ -234,6 +234,15 @@ same logic as IkiWiki itself. I don't think that's serious. --[[smcv]] >>> drop the contents of `%scanned` and rely on a single boolean >>> flag instead. >>> +>>>> This is not actually good enough for the templatebody +>>>> directive, which does in fact need to scan certain pages +>>>> during the render phase, namely when a page that is rendered +>>>> due to dependencies uses a template that no other page being +>>>> rendered in this pass was using. I've reverted this optimization, +>>>> to fix [[wrong rendering of templatebody]], and applied a more +>>>> limited version which only optimizes rebuilds (the worst case +>>>> of this memory consumption). --[[smcv]] +>>> >>> `%scanned` is likely to be no larger than `%rendered`, which >>> we already track, and whose useful lifetime does not overlap >>> with `%scanned` now. I was tempted to merge them both and call @@ -263,8 +272,15 @@ same logic as IkiWiki itself. I don't think that's serious. --[[smcv]] >>>> decide whether to scan the template page, but would be generally more >>>> robust for future plugin writing. >>>> +>>>>> At the moment templatebody really does need to re-scan templates in +>>>>> the render phase, unfortunately. Not scanning in the render phase +>>>>> seems to be precisely how [[wrong rendering of templatebody]] +>>>>> happened. --s +>>>> >>>> **addendum**: if the new phase state is used to create warnings/errors >>>> about improper ikiwiki api use of plugins (which is something i'd >>>> advocate), that should likewise warn if `add_link` actually adds a link in >>>> the render phase. such a warning would have helped spotting the >>>> link-related [[template evaluation oddities]] earlier. --[[chrysn]] + +>>>>> [[Merged|done]] --[[smcv]]