2010/9/8 Michael Dale <[email protected]>:
> On 09/07/2010 12:19 AM, Roan Kattouw wrote:
>> 2010/9/7 Platonides<[email protected]>:
>>
>>> I see. It would have to be a hook into the resource loader.
>>>
>> You don't need a hook in the server-side PHP part of the resource
>> loader, as determining which modules to load on that side is already
>> supported. The Gadgets extension's PHP code could inspect variables
>> like $wgTitle->getNamespace() and determine whether to load a certain
>> gadget or not.
>
> This would of-course result in mangled cache for every page context that
> had a different set of page conditionals. Its better to do as you say
> bellow and have thin loader code check javascript conditionals and then
> fire off the loading of the gadget as needed.
>
I see your argument how separating gadget loading into a separate
request might be better so as to avoid cache mangling, but I hadn't
really considered that and was looking for ways to tack gadget loading
onto the request loading statically requested modules (through
$wgOut), which is possible by a custom loader.
> Is this not what the mediaWiki.load.using() is for?
Yes, that's what you'd use in a thin loader module that then loads
other gadgets as needed, but it'd result in loading the requested
modules in a separate request (which seems to be what you want).
> Are wiki page names
> addressable as loadable modules? Ie can you request
> mediaWiki.load.using(['MediaWiki:MyGadgetDepenency.js',
> 'MediaWiki:MyGadget.js', 'MediaWiki:MyGadget.css' ] , function(){ ...
> MyGadget.doStuff() .. }
>
No, that's not supported.
> This was supported in the old resource loader via special WT: resource
> name pretext, but perhapse could be implemented more cleverly in the new
> resource loader. But would be nice to preserve the basic principal of
> being able to grab multiple wikipages in a single request, as to support
> more module gadget code.
>
I don't believe we should necessarily support retrieval of arbitrary
wiki pages this way, but that's not needed for Gadgets: there's a
gadgets definition list listing all available gadgets, so Gadgets can
simply register each gadget as a module (presumably named something
like gadget-gadgetname).
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)
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