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I rearranged my patchset once again, to clearly identify the origin and
motivation of each patch, which is explained in the following.
In my ikiwiki-based website I have the following situation:
$config{usedirs} is 1
- there are a number of subdirectories (A/, B/, C/, etc)
with pages under each of them (A/page1, A/page2, B/page3, etc)
- 'index pages' for each subdirectory: A.mdwn, B.mdwn, C.mdwn;
these are rather barebone, only contain an inline directive for their
respective subpages and become A/index.html, etc
- there is also the main index.mdwn, which inlines A.mdwn, B.mdwn, C.mdwn,
etc (i.e. the top-level index files are also inlined on the homepage)
With the upstream inline plugin, the feeds for A, B, C etc are located
in A/index.atom , B/index.atom , etc; their title is the wiki name and
their main link goes to the wiki homepage rather than to their
respective subdir (e.g. I would expect A/index.atom to have a link to
http://website/A but it actually points to http://website/ ).
This is due to them being generated from the main index page, and is
fixed by the first patch: ‘inline: base feed urls on included page
name’. As explained in the commit message for the patch itself, this is
a ‘forgotten part’ from a previous page vs destpage fix which has
already been included upstream.
Applied. --[[Joey]]
Thanks.
The second patch, ‘inline: improve feed title and description
management’, aligns feed title and description management by introducing
a title option to complement description , and by basing the
description on the page description if the entry is missing. If no
description is provided by either the directive parameter or the page
metadata, we use a user-configurable default based on both the page
title and wiki name rather than hard-coding the wiki name as description.
Reviewing, this seems ok, but I don't like that
feed_desc_fmt is "safe => 0". And I question if that needs
to be configurable at all. I say, drop that configurable, and
only use the page meta description (or wikiname for index).
Oh, and could you indent your elsif the same as I? --[[Joey]]
I hadn't even realized that I was nesting ifs inside else clauses,
sorry. I think you're also right about the safety of the key, after
all it only gets interpolated with known, safe strings.
I did not mean to imply that I thought it safe. --[[Joey]]
The question is what to do for pages that do not have a description
(and are not the index). With your proposal, the Atom feed subtitle
would turn up empty. We could make it conditional in the default
template, or we could have $desc default to $title if nothing
else is provided, but at this point I see no reason to not allow
the user to choose a way to build a default description.
RSS requires the <description> element be present, it can't
be conditionalized away. But I see no reason to add the complexity
of an option to configure a default value for a field that
few RSS consumers likely even use. That's about 3 levels below useful.
--[[Joey]]
The third patch, ‘inline: allow assigning an id to postform/feedlink’,
does just that. I don't currently use it, but it can be particularly
useful in the postform case for example for scriptable management of
multiple postforms in the same page.
Applied. --[[Joey]]
Thanks.
In one of my wiki setups I had a terminating '/' in $config{url} . You
mention that it should not be present, but I have not seen this
requirement described anywhere. Rather than restricting the user input,
I propose a patch that prevents double slashes from appearing in links
created by urlto() by fixing the routine itself.
If this is fixed I would rather not put the overhead of fixing it in
every call to urlto . And I'm not sure this is a comprehensive
fix to every problem a trailing slash in the url could cause. --[[Joey]]
Maybe something that sanitizes the config value would be better instead?
What is the policy about automatic changing user config?
It's impossible to do for perl-format setup files. --[[Joey]]
The inline plugin is also updated (in a separate patch) to use urlto()
rather than hand-coding the feed urls. You might want to keep this
change even if you discard the urlto patch.
IIRC, I was missing a proof that this always resulted in identical urls,
which is necessary to prevent flooding. I need such a proof before I can
apply that. --[[Joey]]
Well, the URL would obviously change if the $config{url} ended in
slash and the urlto patch (or other equivalent) went into effect.
Aside from that, if I read the code correctly, the only other extra
thing that urlto does is to beautify_url_path the "/".$to part,
and the only way this would cause the url to be altered is if the
feed name was "index" (which can easily happen) and
$config{htmlext} was set to something like .rss or
.rss.1 .
So there is a remote possibility that a different URL would be
produced.
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