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27 lines
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It would be nice for some plugins to use hashes as setup data structures
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(which ones? pagespec aliases for one. Any others?), but these cannot
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currently be adequately described in `getsetup()`, nor represented in
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`websetup()`. It would be nice to extend ikiwiki to support this.
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I've had an initial go at how to represent this in a nice way within a HTML
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page. An initial mock up is available at
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<https://github.com/jmtd/ikiwiki/blob/websetup_hashes/hash.html>. The
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approach taken is to use a javascript hash/dictionary as the canonical copy of
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the data; to express that in the form elements, and to capture all relevant
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events to update the main data structure (and the HTML representations
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thereof).
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I imagine packing the js structure into a form element which is posted, and
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ignoring the other form element data.
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This would mean mandating javascript support for editing such hashes.
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— [[Jon]]
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> I really don't like mandating javascript for anything in ikiwiki.
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> Ikiwiki's websetup is built using CGI::FormBuilder, which makes it easy
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> to create forms for simple stuff, but does not allow custom UI for
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> complex stuff. This does not seem compatable with that, unless your
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> idea is to have a separate form for these more complex things. --[[Joey]]
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