X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/blobdiff_plain/2415a7298b63b938c88c079543705e5db39827ee..78737cbfbf91c7b31ed5d216a23de8d360a76392:/doc/todo/transient_pages.mdwn diff --git a/doc/todo/transient_pages.mdwn b/doc/todo/transient_pages.mdwn index 911f208fd..fe2259b40 100644 --- a/doc/todo/transient_pages.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/transient_pages.mdwn @@ -12,18 +12,42 @@ suggests: added. This would also be useful for autoindex, as suggested on -[[plugins/autoindex/discussion]]. I'd also like to use it for -[[plugins/contrib/album]]. +[[plugins/autoindex/discussion]] and [[!debbug 544322]]. I'd also like +to use it for [[plugins/contrib/album]]. It could also be used for an [[todo/alias_directive]]. --[[smcv]] +> All [[merged|done]] --[[Joey]] + -------------------------- [[!template id=gitbranch branch=smcv/ready/transient author="[[smcv]]"]] [[!tag patch]] +Related branches: + +* `ready/tag-test`: an extra regression test for tags + > merged --[[Joey]] +* either `transient-relative` or `transient-relative-api`: avoid using `Cwd` + on initialization + > merged the latter --[[Joey]] +* `ready/transient-aggregate`: use for aggregate + > merged --[[Joey]] +* `ready/transient-autoindex`: optionally use for autoindex, + which is [[!debbug 544322]] (includes autoindex-autofile from + [[todo/autoindex should use add__95__autofile]]) + > merged. I do note that this interacts badly with ikiwiki-hosting's + > backup/restore/branch handling, since that does not back up the + > transientdir by default, and so autoindex will not recreate the + > "deleted" pages. I'll probably have to make it back up the transientdir + > too. --[[Joey]] +* `ready/transient-recentchanges`: use for recentchanges + > merged --[[Joey]] +* `ready/transient-tag`: optionally use for tag (includes tag-test) + > merged --[[Joey]] + I think this branch is now enough to be useful. It adds the following: If the `transient` plugin is loaded, `$srcdir/.ikiwiki/transient` is added @@ -31,17 +55,21 @@ as an underlay. I'm not sure whether this should be a plugin or core, so I erred on the side of more plugins; I think it's "on the edge of the core", like goto. -Pages with the default extension in the transient underlay are automatically +Pages in the transient underlay are automatically deleted if a page of the same name is created in the srcdir (or an underlay closer to the srcdir in stacking order). +With the additional `ready/transient-tag` branch, `tag` enables `transient`, and if `tag_autocreate_commit` is set to 0 (default 1), autocreated tags are written to the transient underlay. There is a regression test. +With the additional `transient-autoindex` branch, `autoindex` uses autofiles. It also enables `transient`, and if `autoindex_commit` is set to 0 (default 1), autoindexes are written to -the transient underlay. There is a regression test. +the transient underlay. There is a regression test. However, this branch +is blocked by working out what the desired behaviour is, on +[[todo/autoindex_should_use_add__95__autofile]]. > I wonder why this needs to be configurable? I suppose that gets back to > whether it makes sense to check these files in or not. The benefits of @@ -64,15 +92,25 @@ the transient underlay. There is a regression test. > commit clutter is really worth it. >> According to the last section of ->> [[todo/auto-create_tag_pages_according_to_a_template]], chrysn and +>> [[todo/auto-create_tag_pages_according_to_a_template]], [[chrysn]] and >> Eric both feel rather strongly that it should be possible to ->> not commit any tags. I made it configurable because, as you point out, +>> not commit any tags; in [[plugins/autoindex/discussion]], +>> lollipopman and [[JoeRayhawk]] both requested the same for autoindex. +>> I made it configurable because, as you point out, >> there are also reasons why it makes sense to check these >> automatically-created files in. I'm neutral on this, personally. >> >> If this is a point of contention, would you accept a branch that >> just adds `transient` and uses it for [[plugins/recentchanges]], ->> which aren't checked in and never have been? +>> which aren't checked in and never have been? I've split the +>> branch up in the hope that *some* of it can get merged. +>> +>>> I will be happy to merge transient-recentchanges when it's ready. +>>> I see no obstacle to merging transient-tag either, and am not +>>> really against using it for autoindex or aggregate either +>>> once they get completed. +>>> I just wanted to think through why configurability is needed. +>>> --[[Joey]] >> >> One potentially relevant point is that configuration clutter only >> affects the site admin whereas commit clutter is part of the whole @@ -80,18 +118,31 @@ the transient underlay. There is a regression test. > Anyway, the configurability > appears subtly broken; the default is only 1 if a new setup file is -> generated. With an existing setup file, the 'default' values in +> generated. (Correction: It was not even the default then --[[Joey]]) +> With an existing setup file, the 'default' values in > `getsetup` don't take effect, so it will default to undef, which > is treated the same as 0. --[[Joey]] ->> Fixed in the branch, hopefully. (How disruptive would it be to have +>> Fixed in the branches, hopefully. (How disruptive would it be to have >> defaults take effect whenever the setup file doesn't set a value, btw? >> It seems pretty astonishing to have them work as they do at the moment.) --s +>>> Well, note that default is not actually a documented field in +>>> getsetup hooks at all! (It is used in IkiWiki.pm's own `getsetup()`, and +>>> the concept may have leaked out into one or two plugins (comments, +>>> transient)). +>>> +>>> Running getsetup at plugin load time is something I have considered +>>> doing. It would simplify some checkconfig hooks that just set hardcoded +>>> defaults. Although since dying is part of the getsetup hook's API, it +>>> could be problimaric. +>>> --[[Joey]] + autoindex ignores pages in the transient underlay when deciding whether to generate an index. -New recent changes go in the transient underlay; I tested this manually. +With the additional `ready/transient-recentchanges` branch, new recent +changes go in the transient underlay; I tested this manually. Not done yet (in that branch, at least): @@ -107,6 +158,9 @@ Not done yet (in that branch, at least): >> you could give. Note that my branch wasn't meant to enable either >> by default, and now hopefully doesn't. --[[smcv]] + >>> Opened a new bug for this, [[bugs/removal_of_transient_pages]] + >>> --[[Joey]] + * Transient tags that don't match any pages aren't deleted: I'm not sure that that's a good idea anyway, though. Similarly, transient autoindexes of directories that become empty aren't deleted. @@ -119,54 +173,96 @@ Not done yet (in that branch, at least): transient underlay too (they'll naturally migrate over time). I haven't tested this yet, it's just a proof-of-concept. + > Now renamed to `ready/transient-aggregate`; it does seem to work fine. + > --s + > I can confirm that the behavior of autoindex, at least, is excellent. > Haven't tried tag. Joey, can you merge transient and autoindex? --JoeRayhawk >> Here are some other things I'd like to think about first: --[[Joey]] >> >> * There's a FIXME in autoindex. - ->>> Right, the extra logic for preventing autoindex pages from being ->>> re-created. I've started on regression tests for this, but I'll ->>> need to rummage through the commit log for the exact requirements ->>> and the reasoning behind them, so it could take a while. --s +>> +>> > Right, the extra logic for preventing autoindex pages from being +>> > re-created. This is taking a while, so I'm going to leave out the +>> > autoindex part for the moment. The FIXME is only relevant +>> > because I tried to solve +>> > [[todo/autoindex should use add__95__autofile]] first, but +>> > strictly speaking, that's an orthogonal change. --s >> * Suggest making recentchanges unlink the transient page >> first, and only unlink from the old location if it wasn't >> in the transient location. Ok, it only saves 1 syscall :) +>> +>> > Is an unlink() really that expensive? But, OK, fixed in the +>> > `ready/transient-recentchanges` branch. --s ->>> Is an unlink() really that expensive? But, OK, fixed in the ->>> updated branch. --s +>> >> It's not, but it's easy. :) --[[Joey]] >> * Similarly it's a bit worrying for performance that it >> needs to pull in and use `Cwd` on every ikiwiki startup now. >> I really don't see the need; `wikistatedir` should >> mostly be absolute, and ikiwiki should not chdir in ways >> that break it anyway. - ->>> The reason to make it absolute is that relative underlays ->>> are interpreted as relative to the base underlay directory, ->>> not the cwd. ->>> ->>> The updated branch only loads `Cwd` if the path is relative; ->>> an extra commit on branch `smcv/transient-relative` goes ->>> behind `add_underlay`'s back to allow use of a cwd-relative ->>> underlay. Which direction would you prefer? --s +>> +>> > The reason to make it absolute is that relative underlays +>> > are interpreted as relative to the base underlay directory, +>> > not the cwd, by `add_underlay`. +>> > +>> > The updated `ready/transient-only` branch only loads `Cwd` if +>> > the path is relative; an extra commit on branch +>> > `smcv/transient-relative` goes behind `add_underlay`'s +>> > back to allow use of a cwd-relative underlay. Which direction +>> > would you prefer? +>> > +>> > I note in passing that [[plugins/autoindex]] and `IkiWiki::Render` +>> > both need to use `Cwd` and `File::Find` on every refresh, so +>> > there's only any point in avoiding `Cwd` for runs that don't +>> > actually refresh, like simple uses of the CGI. --s + +>> >> Oh, right, I'd forgotten about the horrificness of File::Find +>> >> that required a chdir for security. Ugh. Can we just avoid +>> >> it for those simple cases then? (demand-calculate wikistatedir) +>> >> --[[Joey]] + +>> >>> The reason that transientdir needs to be absolute is that it's +>> >>> added as an underlay. +>> >>> +>> >>> We could avoid using `Cwd` by taking the extra commit from either +>> >>> `smcv/transient-relative` or `smcv/transient-relative-api`; +>> >>> your choice. I'd personally go for the latter. +>> >>> +>> >>> According to git grep, [[plugins/po]] already wants to look at +>> >>> the underlaydirs in its checkconfig hook, so I don't think +>> >>> delaying calculation of the underlaydir is viable. (I also noticed +>> >>> a bug, +>> >>> [[bugs/po:_might_not_add_translated_versions_of_all_underlays]].) +>> >>> +>> >>> `underlaydirs` certainly needs to have been calculated by the +>> >>> time `refresh` hooks finish, so `find_src_files` can use it. --s >> * Unsure about the use of `default_pageext` in the `change` >> hook. Is everything in the transientdir really going >> to use that pageext? Would it be better to look up the >> complete source filename? - ->>> At the moment everything in the transientdir will either ->>> have the `default_pageext` or be internal, although I ->>> did wonder whether to make [[plugins/contrib/album]] ->>> viewer pages optionally be `html`, for better performance ->>> when there's a very large number of photos. ->>> ->>> A more thorough garbage-collection mechanism would be to ->>> use File::Find on the transient directory; I'll get there ->>> eventually. --s +>> +>> > I've updated `ready/transient` to do a more thorough GC by +>> > using File::Find on the transient directory. This does +>> > require `File::Find` and `Cwd`, but only when pages change, +>> > and `refresh` loads both of those in that situation anyway. +>> > +>> > At the moment everything in the transientdir will either +>> > have the `default_pageext` or be internal, although I +>> > did wonder whether to make [[plugins/contrib/album]] +>> > viewer pages optionally be `html`, for better performance +>> > when there's a very large number of photos. --s + +>> >> Oh, ugh, more File::Find... Couldn't it just assume that the +>> >> transient page has the same extension as its replacement? +>> >> --[[Joey]] + +>> >>> Good idea, that'll be true for web edits at least. +>> >>> Commit added. --s --------------------------