From: Jon Dowland Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 12:59:43 +0000 (+0100) Subject: thanks for response; follow-up; I've got something working… X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/commitdiff_plain/2f00530f28da081207f0c9d5d6fbbcbd66da5166 thanks for response; follow-up; I've got something working… --- diff --git a/doc/todo/publishing_in_the_future.mdwn b/doc/todo/publishing_in_the_future.mdwn index 2b7a43da7..55fe3aa1f 100644 --- a/doc/todo/publishing_in_the_future.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/publishing_in_the_future.mdwn @@ -24,9 +24,9 @@ unpublished pages as 'dirty' so they were always scanned on refresh until their publish date has occurred. That could perhaps be implemented via a small plugin which defined a pagespec which ensured the page was 'dirty': - \[[!if test="current_date_before()" + \[[!meta date=""]] + \[[!if test="!current_date_before()" then="""[[!tag draft]][[!dirty]]""" - else="""[[!meta date=""]]""" ]] The following is an attempt at the dirty part: @@ -94,3 +94,34 @@ Thoughts on the whole idea? — [[Jon]] > I feel my idea there about making a pagespec that is limited to > items in the present/past, combined with setting the meta data, is a good > way.. --[[Joey]] + +>> Thanks for your response Joey. Should I merge these two TODOs, then? +>> So if I understand you correctly, you would prefer some new pagespecs +>> to match future/past dates, and a plugin which kept track of pages with +>> a future date and kept them 'dirty' (similar to the above), which means +>> avoiding the need for a `dirty` pagespec in the page itself. Is that +>> about right? +>> +>> I came up with the following, but I haven't adapted `dirty.pm` inline +>> with my understanding above, yet. + + sub match_infuture ($$;@) { + my $page = shift; + return IkiWiki::SuccessReason->new("page time is in the future") + if $IkiWiki::pagectime{$page} > time; + return IkiWiki::FailReason->new("page time is not in the future"); + } + +>> I've managed to get my original suggestion working. The problem was +>> I was using quotes when invoking the pagespec, which stopped `str2time` +>> working. +>> +>> Let me know if I've understood your POV correctly and I'll see about +>> tidying this up and putting it in a branch. +>> +>> Finally, a way of scheduling future runs of ikiwiki *within ikiwiki +>> itself* might be useful for other things too, and would avoid the +>> need for a cron job in this case. (I'm thinking of a plugin that +>> implemented itself in terms of cron, or at, or both, or possibly +>> other things depending on what people want to support). But that would +>> be substantially more work, more than I can afford atm at least. — [[Jon]]