X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/blobdiff_plain/abd233931247ef38f1b084afd5906619f02c13b6..b3720582abc46974715d019aa07d78828bc23062:/doc/plugins/write.mdwn diff --git a/doc/plugins/write.mdwn b/doc/plugins/write.mdwn index eaa008131..9a5ca60a0 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/write.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/write.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Ikiwiki's plugin interface allows all kinds of useful [[plugins]] to be +lkiwiki's plugin interface allows all kinds of useful [[plugins]] to be written to extend ikiwiki in many ways. Despite the length of this page, it's not really hard. This page is a complete reference to everything a plugin might want to do. There is also a quick [[tutorial]]. @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ built. Now that it knows what pages it needs to build, ikiwiki runs two compile passes. First, it runs `scan` hooks, which collect metadata about the pages. Then it runs a page rendering pipeline, by calling in turn these -hooks: `filter`, `preprocess`, `linkify`, `htmlize`, `postscan`, +hooks: `filter`, `preprocess`, `linkify`, `htmlize`, `indexhtml`, `pagetemplate`, `sanitize`, `format`. After all necessary pages are built, it calls the `change` hook. Finally, @@ -177,10 +177,15 @@ function is passed no values. hook(type => "needsbuild", id => "foo", call => \&needsbuild); -This allows a plugin to manipulate the list of files that need to be -built when the wiki is refreshed. The function is passed a reference to an -array of files that will be rebuilt, and can modify the array, either -adding or removing files from it. +This allows a plugin to observe or even manipulate the list of files that +need to be built when the wiki is refreshed. + +As its first parameter, the function is passed a reference to an array of +files that will be built. It should return an array reference that is a +modified version of its input. It can add or remove files from it. + +The second parameter passed to the function is a reference to an array of +files that have been deleted. ### scan @@ -198,8 +203,8 @@ value is ignored. hook(type => "filter", id => "foo", call => \&filter); -Runs on the raw source of a page, before anything else touches it, and can -make arbitrary changes. The function is passed named parameters "page", +Runs on the full raw source of a page, before anything else touches it, and +can make arbitrary changes. The function is passed named parameters "page", "destpage", and "content". It should return the filtered content. ### preprocess @@ -282,22 +287,22 @@ like `Makefile` that have no extension. If `hook` is passed an optional "longname" parameter, this value is used when prompting a user to choose a page type on the edit page form. -### postscan +### indexhtml - hook(type => "postscan", id => "foo", call => \&postscan); + hook(type => "indexhtml", id => "foo", call => \&indexhtml); This hook is called once the page has been converted to html (but before the generated html is put in a template). The most common use is to update search indexes. Added in ikiwiki 2.54. -The function is passed named parameters "page" and "content". Its return -value is ignored. +The function is passed named parameters "page", "destpage", and "content". +Its return value is ignored. ### pagetemplate hook(type => "pagetemplate", id => "foo", call => \&pagetemplate); -[[Templates|wikitemplates]] are filled out for many different things in +[[Templates]] are filled out for many different things in ikiwiki, like generating a page, or part of a blog page, or an rss feed, or a cgi. This hook allows modifying the variables available on those templates. The function is passed named parameters. The "page" and @@ -313,12 +318,21 @@ a new custom parameter to the template. hook(type => "templatefile", id => "foo", call => \&templatefile); -This hook allows plugins to change the [[template|wikitemplates]] that is +This hook allows plugins to change the [[template|templates]] that is used for a page in the wiki. The hook is passed a "page" parameter, and should return the name of the template file to use (relative to the template directory), or undef if it doesn't want to change the default ("page.tmpl"). +### pageactions + + hook(type => "pageactions", id => "foo", call => \&pageactions); + +This hook allows plugins to add arbitrary actions to the action bar on a +page (next to Edit, RecentChanges, etc). The hook is passed a "page" +parameter, and can return a list of html fragments to add to the action +bar. + ### sanitize hook(type => "sanitize", id => "foo", call => \&sanitize); @@ -566,6 +580,7 @@ describes the plugin as a whole. For example: * `description` is a short description of the option. * `link` is a link to further information about the option. This can either be a [[ikiwiki/WikiLink]], or an url. +* `htmldescription` is displayed instead of the description by websetup. * `advanced` can be set to true if the option is more suitable for advanced users. * `safe` should be false if the option should not be displayed in unsafe @@ -586,7 +601,17 @@ describes the plugin as a whole. For example: hook(type => "genwrapper", id => "foo", call => \&genwrapper); This hook is used to inject C code (which it returns) into the `main` -function of the ikiwiki wrapper when it is being generated. +function of the ikiwiki wrapper when it is being generated. + +The code runs before anything else -- in particular it runs before +the suid wrapper has sanitized its environment. + +### disable + + hook(type => "disable", id => "foo", call => \&disable); + +This hook is only run when a previously enabled plugin gets disabled +during ikiwiki setup. Plugins can use this to perform cleanups. ## Exported variables @@ -701,10 +726,23 @@ the entire wiki build and make the wiki unusable. ### `template($;@)` -Creates and returns a [[!cpan HTML::Template]] object. The first parameter -is the name of the file in the template directory. The optional remaining +Creates and returns a [[!cpan HTML::Template]] object. (In a list context, +returns the parameters needed to construct the obhect.) + +The first parameter is the name of the template file. The optional remaining parameters are passed to `HTML::Template->new`. +Normally, the template file is first looked for in the templates/ subdirectory +of the srcdir. Failing that, it is looked for in the templatedir. + +Wiki pages can be used as templates. This should be done only for templates +which it is safe to let wiki users edit. Enable it by passing a filename +with no ".tmpl" extension. Template pages are normally looked for in +the templates/ directory. If the page name starts with "/", a page +elsewhere in the wiki can be used. + +If the template is not found, or contains a syntax error, an error is thrown. + ### `template_depends($$;@)` Use this instead of `template()` if the content of a template is being @@ -927,13 +965,16 @@ search for files. If the directory name is not absolute, ikiwiki will assume it is in the parent directory of the configured underlaydir. -### `displaytime($;$)` +### `displaytime($;$$)` Given a time, formats it for display. The optional second parameter is a strftime format to use to format the time. +If the third parameter is true, this is the publication time of a page. +(Ie, set the html5 pubdate attribute.) + ### `gettext` This is the standard gettext function, although slightly optimised. @@ -942,14 +983,22 @@ This is the standard gettext function, although slightly optimised. This is the standard ngettext function, although slightly optimised. -### `urlto($$;$)` +### `urlto($;$$)` Construct a relative url to the first parameter from the page named by the second. The first parameter can be either a page name, or some other destination file, as registered by `will_render`. -If the third parameter is passed and is true, an absolute url will be -constructed instead of the default relative url. +Provide a second parameter whenever possible, since this leads to better +behaviour for the [[plugins/po]] plugin and `file:///` URLs. + +If the second parameter is not specified (or `undef`), the URL will be +valid from any page on the wiki, or from the CGI; if possible it'll +be a path starting with `/`, but an absolute URL will be used if +the wiki and the CGI are on different domains. + +If the third parameter is passed and is true, the url will be a fully +absolute url. This is useful when generating an url to publish elsewhere. ### `newpagefile($$)` @@ -1028,16 +1077,20 @@ token, that will be passed into `rcs_commit` when committing. For example, it might return the current revision ID of the file, and use that information later when merging changes. -#### `rcs_commit($$$;$$)` +#### `rcs_commit(@)` + +Passed named parameters: `file`, `message`, `token` (from `rcs_prepedit`), +and `session` (optional). -Passed a file, message, token (from `rcs_prepedit`), user, and ip address. Should try to commit the file. Returns `undef` on *success* and a version of the page with the rcs's conflict markers on failure. -#### `rcs_commit_staged($$$)` +#### `rcs_commit_staged(@)` -Passed a message, user, and ip address. Should commit all staged changes. -Returns undef on success, and an error message on failure. +Passed named parameters: `message`, and `session` (optional). + +Should commit all staged changes. Returns undef on success, and an +error message on failure. Changes can be staged by calls to `rcs_add`, `rcs_remove`, and `rcs_rename`. @@ -1080,7 +1133,9 @@ The data structure returned for each change is: { rev => # the RCSs id for this commit - user => # name of user who made the change, + user => # user who made the change (may be an openid), + nickname => # short name for user (optional; not an openid), + committype => # either "web" or the name of the rcs, when => # time when the change was made, message => [ @@ -1097,19 +1152,19 @@ The data structure returned for each change is: ], } -#### `rcs_diff($)` +#### `rcs_diff($;$)` + +The first parameter is the rev from `rcs_recentchanges`. +The optional second parameter is how many lines to return (default: all). -The parameter is the rev from `rcs_recentchanges`. Should return a list of lines of the diff (including \n) in list -context, and the whole diff in scalar context. +context, and a string containing the whole diff in scalar context. #### `rcs_getctime($)` This is used to get the page creation time for a file from the RCS, by looking it up in the history. -It's ok if this is not implemented, and throws an error. - If the RCS cannot determine a ctime for the file, return 0. #### `rcs_getmtime($)` @@ -1130,9 +1185,9 @@ sense to implement for all RCSs. It should examine the incoming changes, and do any sanity checks that are appropriate for the RCS to limit changes to safe file adds, -removes, and changes. If something bad is found, it should exit -nonzero, to abort the push. Otherwise, it should return a list of -files that were changed, in the form: +removes, and changes. If something bad is found, it should die, to abort +the push. Otherwise, it should return a list of files that were changed, +in the form: { file => # name of file that was changed @@ -1145,6 +1200,28 @@ files that were changed, in the form: The list will then be checked to make sure that each change is one that is allowed to be made via the web interface. +#### `rcs_preprevert($)` + +This is called by the revert web interface. It is passed a RCS-specific +change ID, and should determine what the effects would be of reverting +that change, and return the same data structure as `rcs_receive`. + +Like `rcs_receive`, it should do whatever sanity checks are appropriate +for the RCS to limit changes to safe changes, and die if a change would +be unsafe to revert. + +#### `rcs_revert($)` + +This is called by the revert web interface. It is passed a named +parameter rev that is the RCS-specific change ID to revert. + +It should try to revert the specified rev, and leave the reversion staged +so `rcs_commit_staged` will complete it. It should return undef on _success_ +and an error message on failure. + +This hook and `rcs_preprevert` are optional, if not implemented, no revert +web interface will be available. + ### PageSpec plugins It's also possible to write plugins that add new functions to