Hi again,
Since no one responded, I took the "least community involvement" route.
Version 0.1 of SMW_InlineQueryParserFunction is now available for download:
http://jimbojw.com/wiki/index.php?title=SMW_InlineQueryParserFunction_Extension
I hope to engage a core SMW dev on the possibility of integrating this
functionality into the core. Thanks for taking the time to respond.
-- Jim R. Wilson (jimbojw)
On 5/18/07, Jim Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi all,
I'm currently working on an InlineQuery Parser Function called {{#ask}}
So this: <ask format="ul">[[friend of::*]]</ask>
Becomes this: {{#ask:format=ul|[[friend of::*]]}}
I thought I was done, having basically written a wrapper around <ask> that
simply uses the Parser Function interface instead of an extension tag.
Unfortunately this will not work as a general purpose solution since the
output of <ask> is raw HTML, not Wikitext.
So, it's not going to be as easy as I'd hoped. :( However, there are at
least two solutions:
1) Continue to wrap <ask> and parse the resultant HTML back to wikitext
(dirty, dirty hack, but requires no core changes and no core functionality
duplication)
2) Implement a range of new SMWQueryPrinter classes, one for each existing
type, but outputting the wikitext equivalents of the raw HTML. So
SMWWikiTablePrinter would correspond to SMWTablePrinter, etc.
I'm heavily leaning towards the latter, but because it requires more code,
I am again faced with a few options:
1) Duplicate whatever I need to get the job done - for example a new
SMWInlineQueries class (SMWInlineWikiQueries) that inherits from the
original, but with a "getWikiResult" method. This option requires no core
SMW changes, but results in duplicate code that would have to be kept in
sync with newer SMW releases (dirty hack)
2) Add hooks into the SMW core to reduce duplication, but still keep the
functionality separate. An example hook would be at the end of
"getHTMLResult" - right after the "switch($this->mFormat)" block. Something
like :
wgRunHooks("SMWInlineQueryGetHTMLResultBeforePrint", array( &$this,
&$printer, &$sq ));
Then anyone could plug any printer they wanted in, no questions asked.
This option requires minimal acceptance by the community as the patches
would be only a few lines.
3) Actually contribute all this work directly into the SMW core (most
elegant solution, but requires buy-in from the community).
So, dear community, what would you have me do? One way or another, I will
have my {{#ask}} function, as I need it for my own site, and I plan to
release the code OSS. Is it worth trying to integrate this with the SMW
core?
Thank you for considering this - and thanks in advance for your replies!
-- Jim R. Wilson (jimbojw)
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