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authorhttp://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~willu/ <http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~willu/@web>2008-08-22 23:41:30 -0400
committerJoey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2008-08-22 23:41:30 -0400
commit2c0a45ba7a9867330ebcd4aa97d4ec946f0e4729 (patch)
tree04270a1253722fe1c905abfc3aa750f47928aa56 /doc/todo/Add_a_plugin_to_list_available_pre-processor_commands.mdwn
parent3069c7b36a96cc27a8c5bed8e908bb3774ba8cac (diff)
Major patch rewrite
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diff --git a/doc/todo/Add_a_plugin_to_list_available_pre-processor_commands.mdwn b/doc/todo/Add_a_plugin_to_list_available_pre-processor_commands.mdwn
index 23e08cd22..3ba0202a0 100644
--- a/doc/todo/Add_a_plugin_to_list_available_pre-processor_commands.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/Add_a_plugin_to_list_available_pre-processor_commands.mdwn
@@ -6,17 +6,17 @@ I've found myself wanting to know which [[plugins]] are switched on so I know wh
> plugin that contains them (for example, the graphviz plugin adds a graph
> directive). Won't keys `%{IkiWiki::hooks{preprocess}}` work?
->>> Er, yeah - that's a much better solution. :)
+>>> Er, yeah - that's a much better solution. :) -- and done
> - "listplugins" is a bit misnamed since it only does preprocessor directives.
>>> Yes. Initially this was going to list all enabled plugins. Then when searching
>>> for enabled plugins I changed my mind and decided that a list of pre-processor
->>> directives was more useful. I'll fix that too.
+>>> directives was more useful. I'll fix that too. -- changed to `listpreprocessors`
> - comment was copied from version plugin and still mentions version :-)
->>> :-)
+>>> :-) -- fixed
> - Seems like [[ikiwiki/formatting]] could benefit from including the
> list.. however, just a list of preprocessor directive names is not
@@ -45,18 +45,39 @@ I've found myself wanting to know which [[plugins]] are switched on so I know wh
>>Hrm. After listing all of that, maybe your idea with the hooks is the better
>>solution. I'll think about it some more. -- [[Will]]
+>>> I started implementing the hook based solution, and decided I didn't like
+>>> it because there was no nice way to rebuild pages when the preprocessor
+>>> descriptions changed. So instead I assumed that the the [[plugins]] pages
+>>> would be moved into the underlay directory. This plugin then uses an
+>>> `inline` directive to include those pages. You can use the `inline`
+>>> parameter to decide if you want to include all the descriptions or
+>>> just the titles. There is also an option to auto-create default/blank
+>>> description pages if they are missing (from a template). As preprocessor
+>>> commands don't list unless they have a description page, auto-creation
+>>> is enabled by default.
+>>>
+>>> There are three new templates that are needed. These are for:
+>>>
+>>> - The auto-created description pages are generated from `preprocessor-description.tmpl`.
+>>> - When only pre-processor names are listed, the `listpreprocessors-listonly.tmpl` template is used.
+>>> - When pre-processor descriptions are included inline, the `listpreprocessors-inline.tmpl` template is used.
+>>>
+>>> -- [[Will]]
+
+Here is the main listpreprocessors plugin. (Note, because this has double square brackets in the source, it isn't quite displaying correctly - look at the page source for details.) New template files follow:
+
#!/usr/bin/perl
- # Ikiwiki listplugins plugin.
- package IkiWiki::Plugin::listplugins;
+ # Ikiwiki listpreprocessors plugin.
+ package IkiWiki::Plugin::listpreprocessors;
use warnings;
use strict;
use IkiWiki 2.00;
sub import { #{{{
- hook(type => "getsetup", id => "listplugins", call => \&getsetup);
- hook(type => "needsbuild", id => "listplugins", call => \&needsbuild);
- hook(type => "preprocess", id => "listplugins", call => \&preprocess);
+ hook(type => "getsetup", id => "listpreprocessors", call => \&getsetup);
+ hook(type => "preprocess", id => "listpreprocessors", call => \&preprocess);
+ hook(type => "refresh", id => "listpreprocessors", call => \&refresh);
} # }}}
sub getsetup () { #{{{
@@ -65,54 +86,128 @@ I've found myself wanting to know which [[plugins]] are switched on so I know wh
safe => 1,
rebuild => undef,
},
+ preprocessor_description_dir => {
+ type => "string",
+ description => "The ikiwiki directory that contains plugin descriptions.",
+ safe => 1,
+ rebuild => 1,
+ },
+ preprocessor_description_autocreate => {
+ type => "boolean",
+ description => "Should pre-processor command descriptions be automatically created from a template.",
+ safe => 1,
+ rebuild => 1,
+ },
} #}}}
- my @pluginlist;
- my $pluginString;
+ sub gendescription ($$) { #{{{
+ my $plugin=shift;
+ my $page=shift;
+ my $file=$page.".".$config{default_pageext};
+ my $template=template("preprocessor-description.tmpl");
+ $template->param(page => $page, plugin => $plugin);
+ writefile($file, $config{srcdir}, $template->output);
+ if ($config{rcs}) {
+ IkiWiki::rcs_add($file);
+ }
+ } #}}}
- sub needsbuild (@) { #{{{
- my $needsbuild=shift;
+ sub refresh () { #{{{
+
+ if (defined $config{preprocessor_description_autocreate} && ! $config{preprocessor_description_autocreate}) {
+ return; # create pages unless they explicitly ask us not to
+ }
- my @rawpluginlist = sort(IkiWiki::listplugins());
- @pluginlist = ();
+ if (!defined $config{preprocessor_description_dir}) {
+ $config{preprocessor_description_dir} = "ikiwiki/plugin/";
+ }
- foreach my $plugin (@rawpluginlist) {
- if ( exists $IkiWiki::hooks{preprocess}{$plugin} ) {
- push(@pluginlist,$plugin);
+ my @pluginlist = sort( keys %{ $IkiWiki::hooks{preprocess} } );
+ my %pluginpages;
+
+ if (@pluginlist) {
+ my ($plugin,$page);
+
+ foreach $plugin (@pluginlist) {
+ $pluginpages{$plugin} = $config{preprocessor_description_dir} . $plugin;
}
- }
- $pluginString = join (' ', @pluginlist);
-
- foreach my $page (keys %pagestate) {
- if (exists $pagestate{$page}{listplugins}{shown}) {
- if ($pagestate{$page}{listplugins}{shown} ne $pluginString) {
- push @$needsbuild, $pagesources{$page};
- }
- if (exists $pagesources{$page} &&
- grep { $_ eq $pagesources{$page} } @$needsbuild) {
- # remove state, will be re-added if
- # the version is still shown during the
- # rebuild
- delete $pagestate{$page}{listplugins}{shown};
- }
+ if ($config{rcs}) {
+ IkiWiki::disable_commit_hook();
+ }
+
+ while (($plugin,$page) = each %pluginpages) {
+ gendescription($plugin,$page);
+ }
+
+ if ($config{rcs}) {
+ IkiWiki::rcs_commit_staged(
+ gettext("automatic pre-processor description generation"),
+ undef, undef);
+ IkiWiki::enable_commit_hook();
}
}
- } # }}}
+ } #}}}
sub preprocess (@) { #{{{
my %params=@_;
- $pagestate{$params{destpage}}{listplugins}{shown}=$pluginString;
+ if (!defined $config{plugin_description_dir}) {
+ $config{plugin_description_dir} = "ikiwiki/plugin/";
+ }
- my $result = "<ul class=\"pluginlist\">";
- my $thisPlugin;
- foreach $thisPlugin (@pluginlist) {
- $result .= "<li class=\"pluginlist\">$thisPlugin</li>";
+ my @pluginlist = sort( keys %{ $IkiWiki::hooks{preprocess} } );
+ foreach my $plugin (@pluginlist) {
+ $plugin = $config{plugin_description_dir} . $plugin;
}
- $result .= "</ul>";
+ my $pluginString = join (' or ', @pluginlist);
+
+ my $result = "[[!inline pages=\"$pluginString\" feeds=\"no\" show=0 sort=\"title\"";
- return $result;
+ if (defined $params{inline}) {
+ $result .= ' template=\"listpreprocessors-listonly\" archive="yes"';
+ } else {
+ $result .= ' template=\"listpreprocessors-inline\" archive="no"';
+ }
+
+ $result .= "]]";
+
+ return IkiWiki::preprocess($params{page}, $params{destpage},
+ IkiWiki::filter($params{page}, $params{destpage}, $result));
} # }}}
1
+
+--------
+
+This is what I was using for `listpreprocessors-inline.tmpl`:
+
+ <div class="listpreprocessorsinline">
+
+ <div class="inlineheader">
+
+ <span class="header">
+ <a href="<TMPL_VAR PAGEURL>"><TMPL_VAR TITLE></a>
+ </span>
+
+ </div><!--.inlineheader-->
+
+ <div class="inlinecontent">
+ <TMPL_VAR CONTENT>
+ </div><!--.inlinecontent-->
+
+ </div><!--.listpreprocessorsinline-->
+
+--------
+
+This is what I was using for `listpreprocessors-listonly.tmpl`:
+
+ <p class="listpreprocessors"><a href="<TMPL_VAR PAGEURL>"><TMPL_VAR TITLE></a></p>
+
+--------
+
+This is what I was using for `preprocessor-description.tmpl`:
+
+ The <TMPL_VAR plugin> preprocessor command currently has no description.
+
+ Maybe you should edit this page to add one.