Hi Richard Hi Mario - I found the github api and was just reading up on it. I thought >> it might be a good way for me to learn a bit more about how api calls work. >> > I see your point about calling the api repeatedly - what do you think the >> best practice would be in this regard? ie; is there a way to limit the >> number of times it gets called (once?) - for example only when the wiki is >> loaded and store the result? >> > You definitely don't want to be making HTTP calls from macros or widgets; by the time the call returns the widget/macro might have been destroyed and recreated by the refresh mechanism.
Here's a potentially workable approach. Issue 1799 has the following URL: https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/issues/1799 As a convention, we could store the corresponding title in the text field system tiddler: $:/plugins/richardsmith/githubissues/ https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/issues/1799 Then we need to display an issue we could do so with a transclusion that falls through to displaying the URL if the title tiddler is missing: <$transclude tiddler="""$:/plugins/richardsmith/githubissues/$(issue-url)$"""> $(issue-url)$ </$transclude> Then we'd need a startup module or daemon that handles `tm-load-url` messages, with parameters indicating the URL to load and the tiddler to store the data. The loading would happen asynchronously, triggering a refresh when the tiddler is eventually loaded. We would probably need to take steps to avoid the same tiddler being repeatedly loaded (perhaps we could rely on XMLHttpRequest to observe the incoming HTTP caching headers). The final part is triggering the loading. That's tricky because we don't currently have a way of triggering a message when a chunk of content is displayed; messages are always triggered by external events like clicks or timers. The easiest way to experiment would be with a JS macro that sends the `tm-load-url` message when it is rendered. That's only an outline, I'd be delighted to help with details. The url loading mechanism is nicely generic, though. Best wishes Jeremy. -- Jeremy Ruston mailto:[email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/CAPKKYJZ%3Dvwc9_5k2-GCm1AENYaB5kw6q%2Bv4BioBaAvKtAevSSQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
