doc/bugs/recentchanges_feed_links.mdwn



(Moved from [[plugins/recentchanges/discussion]])
I've just upgraded to ikiwiki 2.50 with the recentchanges plugin enabled, and
figured out that I have to turn on rss in ikiwiki.setup in order to get the
recentchanges feed. Now the feed shows up, but the links in the feed go to the
change pages, e.g. recentchanges/change_1700.html.  I can see a recentchanges
directory created in the working copy, containing files like change_1700._change
but for some reason they are not getting htmlized and carried over. I can see
in recentchanges.pm that it explicitly registers an htmlize hook for the
_change type, but something isn't happening. I also see return if $type=~/^_/; in
render() in Render.pm so I guess the upshot is I'm not sure how this is
supposed to work; is there a bug here or just something I overlooked that I need
to turn on? --Chapman Flack

It's a (minor) bug that recentchanges optimises away generating the
change pages, but that the rss/atom feed still links to them. --[[Joey]]


Hmm, ok, what's the intended correct behavior? To really generate the
change pages, or to change the links in the feed to point somewhere else that's
not missing? If you can easily point me to the right neighborhood in the code
I might work on a patch for this. It may be a (minor) bug in the grand scheme
of things, but it does seem pretty goofy if you've just clicked an RSS link. :)
--Chap (p.s. should this be moved to bugs?)


The latter -- I think making the permalink point to
"recentchanges#someid" will probably work. Probably first by addressing the
todo about [[todo/ability_to_force_particular_UUIDs_on_blog_posts]],
and then by just using that new ability in the page. --[[Joey]]


Ah. The prerequisite todo looks like more than I'd like to take on.
In the meantime, would it be very involved to change whatever bug now
optimizes away the change pages, or to simply have all the links in the
feed point to the recentchanges page itself, with no fragment id?
Either would be a bit nicer than having broken links in the feed. --Chap