On 05.04.2011 5:06, Daniel Friesen wrote: > Continuing with my changes to $wgOut, $wgUser, Skin, and SpecialPage > patterns. > > The Linker is now static, $sk->link will still work, however you should > not be requiring a Skin anymore to use linker methods. Please use > Linker::link directly. > The only exception is the method to create an editsection link, that > method IS part of Skin itself now. > Also there is some compat for hooks that were passed the linker as an > instance, and `$parserOptions->getSkin();` However note that > ParserOptions::getSkin no longer returns an actual Skin, it now returns > a plain linker instance and makes a depreciated call. > ((for reference the 'instance' of Linker which is static is actually a > "DummyLinker" class which has a __call that forwards old method calls to > static calls to the linker)) > > So nearly EVERY case you are currently grabbing a Skin for, you should > no longer be fetching a skin. > > > Now, if you really do need a skin, the the new way to get a skin is > `$context->getSkin()`, OutputPage has a helper `$out->getSkin()` if you > happen to be working on OutputPage related stuff and need to interact > with the skin. `$wgUser->getSkin();` has some BackCompat to keep > working, however please avoid using it, it uses the main RequestContext, > not whatever the RequestContext for whatever context you are in is. > > Also, there is no equivalent to `$wgUser->getSkin( $title );`. Skin no > longer has a mTitle of it's own, it gets the title used in the attached > RequestContext, which is the same one that OutputPage uses, and is > essentially the replacement to $wgTitle. So you don't need to work > around bugs like that in Skin, nor in OutputPage anymore. Additionally > that format was never actually used right, nearly every call to that was > actually made in contexts where one was using the Linker methods (which > don't use mTitle) and was not interacting with the skin. > > I started a page on the RequestContext object: > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Request_Context > > Context is very interesting. That sounds like easier way of having farms sharing one installation path without the symlink hacks, also probably an efficient "in-farm transclusion". Dmitriy
_______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
