Consider the "All files in this package search" on
http://packages.debian.org. The URL for such a search looks like this:
http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?word=packagename&searchmode=filelist&case=insensitive&version=unstable&arch=i386
To create a "debfiles" [[shortcut|shortcuts]] that takes a package name, you
could just hardcode the architecture and distribution:
\[[shortcut name=debfiles url="http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?word=%s&searchmode=filelist&case=insensitive&version=unstable&arch=i386"]]
\[[debfiles ikiwiki]]
But what if you could have them as optional parameters instead? The syntax
for the invocation should look like this:
\[[debfiles ikiwiki dist=testing]]
Some possible syntax choices for the shortcut definition:
\[[shortcut name=debfiles url="http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?word=%s&searchmode=filelist&case=insensitive&version=%(dist)s&arch=%(arch)s" dist="unstable" arch="i386"]]
\[[shortcut name=debfiles url="http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?word=%s&searchmode=filelist&case=insensitive&version=%(dist=unstable)s&arch=%(arch=i386)s"]]
\[[shortcut name=debfiles url="http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?word=%s&searchmode=filelist&case=insensitive&version=%{dist=unstable}&arch=%{arch=i386}"]]
\[[shortcut name=debfiles url="http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?word=$*&searchmode=filelist&case=insensitive&version=${dist=unstable}&arch=${arch=i386}"]]
--[[JoshTriplett]]
Well, you can already do this kind of thing with templates. Invocation does
look different:
\[[template id=debfiles package=ikiwiki dist=testing]]
--[[Joey]]
I think I would find templates sufficient, if:
- I could use the name of the template as a preprocessor directive
(
\[[templatename ...]]), rather than using the template directive
with an id argument (\[[template id=templatename]]).
- Template invocation allowed bare values in addition to
key=value
arguments, and template definition supported some means to access the
value. This would allow \[[debfiles ikiwiki]] rather than \[[debfiles package=ikiwiki]].
- I could use ikiwiki syntax in the template, not just HTML and
HTML::Template. (If I can already do that, then [[/plugins/template]]
should make that more clear.)
--[[JoshTriplett]]
