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diff --git a/doc/todo/structured_page_data.mdwn b/doc/todo/structured_page_data.mdwn index 62d5f04d6..54e001fc6 100644 --- a/doc/todo/structured_page_data.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/structured_page_data.mdwn @@ -165,6 +165,41 @@ See also: >>>> I've just updated the second of the two patches below. The two patches are not mutually >>>> exclusive, but I'm leaning towards the second as more useful (for the things I'm doing). -- [[Will]] +I think it's awesome that you're writing this code to explore the problem +space, [[Will]] -- and these plugins are good stabs at at least part of it. +Let me respond to a few of your comments.. --[[Joey]] + +On use cases, one use case is a user posting a bug report with structured +data in it. A template is one way, but then the user has to deal with the +format used to store the structured data. This is where a edit-time form +becomes essential. Another use case is, after many such bugs have been filed, +wanting to add a new field to each bug report. To avoid needing to edit +every bug report it would be good if the fields in a bug report were +defined somewhere else, so that just that one place can be edited to add +the new field, and it will show up in each bug report (and in each bug +report's edit page, as a new form field). + +Re the form plugin, I'm uncomfortable with tying things into +[[!cpan CGI::FormBuilder]] quite so tightly as you have. CGI::FormBuilder +could easily change in a way that broke whole wikis full of pages. Also, +needing to sanitize FormBuilder fields with security implications is asking +for trouble, since new FormBuilder features could add new fields, or +add new features to existing fields (FormBuilder is very DWIM) that open +new security holes. + +I think that having a type system, that allows defining specific types, +like "email address", by writing code (that in turn can use FormBuilder), +is a better approach, since it should avoid becoming a security problem. + +One specific security hole, BTW, is that if you allow the `validate` field, +FormBuilder will happily treat it as a regexp, and we don't want to expose +arbitrary perl regexps, since they can at least DOS a system, and can +probably be used to run arbitrary perl code. + +The data plugin only deals with a fairly small corner of the problem space, +but I think does a nice job at what it does. And could probably be useful +in a large number of other cases. + #!/usr/bin/perl # Interpret YAML data to make a web form package IkiWiki::Plugin::form; |