Hello.
TL;DR: I'd like to rework the List format. Join the discussion at
https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/issues/2488.
SMW 3.0 is coming up ([0]). This will be a major new version ([1]) allowing to
introduce breaking changes. Making such changes should certainly not be an end
to itself. Still, a major release provides an opportunity to introduce new
features and clean-up cruft that will probably not come too soon again (SMW 2.0
was released three years ago).
With that intro, do you think it would be a good idea to rework the list format?
Here is what I would like to see:
Separate separators for values, properties and result "rows".
E.g. three separators (sep=,, propsep=;, valuesep=/) could produce the
following result:
United States of America (Cities Washington / New York / Los Angeles; Neighbors
Canada / Mexico), United Kingdom (Cities London / Glasgow / Manchester;
Neighbors Ireland), France (Cities Paris / Marseille / Bordeaux; Neighbors
Belgium / Luxemburg / Germany / Switzerland / Italy / Spain), and Germany
(Cities Berlin / Frankfurt / Hamburg; Neighbors Poland / Czechia / Austria /
Switzerland / France / Belgium / Luxemburg / Netherlands / Denmark)
This would also benefit the subformats (ol, ul, template, tree (in SRF))
A simpler logic of when which separator is used.
This is currently handled in
[ListResultPrinter.php](https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/blob/master/includes/queryprinters/ListResultPrinter.php#L239)
and is rather confusing. I'd just reduce this to a default value ,, that may
be overridden by parser function parameters. The default values should be
defined in i18n messages.
Remove the final list separator (", and").
It has been gone for a while due to a bug and apparently nobody noticed.
Make the template format an alias of the list format.
When the user supplies a parser function parameter template, then just assume
they want it used, even for format=list. And inversely if format=template, but
the parser function parameter template is missing or empty, just print a normal
list.
Rename/standardize parameters to templates.
E.g. all standard parameters start with a #:
- smw-resultquerycondition => #querycondition
- smw-resultquerylimit => #querylimit
- smw-resultqueryoffset => #resultoffset
- new: #resultcount
Add class attribute to HTML elements.
To facilitate styling.
General code clean-up and removal of legacy/deprecated functionality
To make it easier to subclass and test the list format.
What else?
Please join the discussion on GitHub
(https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/issues/2488).
Cheers
Stephan
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