From: http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/ <smcv@web>
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 09:38:57 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: known limitation to the supported types, partly for websetup's benefit
X-Git-Tag: debian/3.20140102~24
X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/commitdiff_plain/fdfb31e912a6b6bda418b3bdba21d267c3fe1813

known limitation to the supported types, partly for websetup's benefit
---

diff --git a/doc/bugs/structured_config_data_is_mangled.mdwn b/doc/bugs/structured_config_data_is_mangled.mdwn
index 7d8f5defb..869d48e96 100644
--- a/doc/bugs/structured_config_data_is_mangled.mdwn
+++ b/doc/bugs/structured_config_data_is_mangled.mdwn
@@ -46,3 +46,16 @@ sub checkconfig {
     }
 }
 ~~~
+
+> `getsetup` defines config options to be one of: boolean, string, integer,
+> pagespec, "internal" (non-user-visible string), ref to an array of one of
+> those scalar types, or ref to a hash { string => one of those scalar types }.
+> IkiWiki::Setup also appears to support regexps (qr//), although that's
+> not documented (presumably they're treated the same as strings).
+> 
+> Supporting arbitrary arrays/hashes as values would require some way to
+> untaint the values recursively.
+>
+> Complex config data also can't be used with the [[plugins/websetup]]
+> plugin, which currently supports everything that IkiWiki::Setup does,
+> except for hashes. --[[smcv]]