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authorhttp://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~willu/ <http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~willu/@web>2008-09-14 07:04:55 -0400
committerJoey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2008-09-14 07:04:55 -0400
commit8ad716d92c615864a5293b030afc6535e9d92b6f (patch)
treedada9962ae1045ee0f15c52fb23f9af812426615 /doc
parenteee22b3c5194383b7f54eba835a3b597816609b0 (diff)
Add another trial approach for structured data
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@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ See also:
>Anyway, I just wanted to list the thoughts. In none of these use cases is straight yaml or json the
>obvious answer. -- [[Will]]
->> Okie. I've had a play with this. A plugin is included inline below, but it is only a rough first pass to
+>> Okie. I've had a play with this. A 'form' plugin is included inline below, but it is only a rough first pass to
>> get a feel for the design space.
>>
>> The current design defines a new type of page - a 'form'. The type of page holds YAML data
@@ -144,8 +144,23 @@ See also:
\[[!inline pages="form_eq(age,15)" archive="yes"]]
>> will include a link to the page generated above.
->>
->> Anyway, here is the plugin. As noted above this is only a preliminary, exploratory, attempt. -- [[Will]]
+
+>>> Okie, I've just made another plugin to try and do things in a different way.
+>>> This approach adds a 'data' directive. There are two arguments, `key` and `value`.
+>>> The directive is replaced by the value. There is also a match function, which is similar
+>>> to the one above. It also takes two arguments, a key and a value. It returns true if the
+>>> page has that key/value pair in a data directive. e.g.:
+
+ \[[!data key="age" value="15"]]
+
+>>> then, in another page:
+
+ \[[!inline pages="data_eq(age,15)" archive="yes"]]
+
+>>> I expect that we could have more match functions for each type of structured data,
+>>> I just wanted to implement a rough prototype to get a feel for how it behaves. -- [[Will]]
+
+>> Anyway, here are the plugins. As noted above these are only preliminary, exploratory, attempts. -- [[Will]]
#!/usr/bin/perl
# Interpret YAML data to make a web form
@@ -362,3 +377,82 @@ See also:
} #}}}
1
+
+----
+
+ #!/usr/bin/perl
+ # Allow data embedded in a page to be checked for
+ package IkiWiki::Plugin::data;
+
+ use warnings;
+ use strict;
+ use IkiWiki 2.00;
+
+ sub import { #{{{
+ hook(type => "getsetup", id => "data", call => \&getsetup);
+ hook(type => "needsbuild", id => "data", call => \&needsbuild);
+ hook(type => "preprocess", id => "data", call => \&preprocess, scan => 1);
+ } # }}}
+
+ sub getsetup () { #{{{
+ return
+ plugin => {
+ safe => 1,
+ rebuild => 1, # format plugin
+ },
+ } #}}}
+
+ sub needsbuild (@) { #{{{
+ my $needsbuild=shift;
+ foreach my $page (keys %pagestate) {
+ if (exists $pagestate{$page}{data}) {
+ if (exists $pagesources{$page} &&
+ grep { $_ eq $pagesources{$page} } @$needsbuild) {
+ # remove state, it will be re-added
+ # if the preprocessor directive is still
+ # there during the rebuild
+ delete $pagestate{$page}{data};
+ }
+ }
+ }
+ }
+
+ sub preprocess (@) { #{{{
+ my %params=@_;
+
+ $pagestate{$params{page}}{data}{$params{key}} = $params{value};
+
+ return IkiWiki::preprocess($params{page}, $params{destpage},
+ IkiWiki::filter($params{page}, $params{destpage}, $params{value})) if defined wantarray;
+ } # }}}
+
+
+ package IkiWiki::PageSpec;
+
+ sub match_data_eq ($$;@) { #{{{
+ my $page=shift;
+ my $argSet=shift;
+ my @args=split(/,/, $argSet);
+ my $key=shift @args;
+ my $value=shift @args;
+
+ my $file = $IkiWiki::pagesources{$page};
+
+ if (! exists $IkiWiki::pagestate{$page}{data}) {
+ return IkiWiki::FailReason->new("page does not contain any data directives");
+ }
+
+ if (! exists $IkiWiki::pagestate{$page}{data}{$key}) {
+ return IkiWiki::FailReason->new("page does not contain data key '$key'");
+ }
+
+ my $formVal = $IkiWiki::pagestate{$page}{data}{$key};
+
+ if ($formVal eq $value) {
+ return IkiWiki::SuccessReason->new("value matches");
+ } else {
+ return IkiWiki::FailReason->new("value does not match");
+ }
+ } #}}}
+
+ 1