On 06/11/12 23:35, Amelia Ireland wrote: > Hello all, > > Is it possible to pause and resume a Mediawiki edit? > > To explain, I've written a MW extension that accesses an external > database; this database requires OAuth authentication [1.0, pre-OAuth > wars version], which is a three-step process requiring the user to be > redirected to an external site to allow the extension access to the > external db. If the MW extension already has an access token for the > extDb, all is well. However, if there isn't a token, there is a > problem. This is a tag extension, and is triggered by finding a > certain XML tag in the wiki page, which typically occurs in the > 'preview' or 'submit' of an edit, e.g. > http://server.com/wiki/index.php?title=Bibliography&action=submit (the > parser hook is ParserFirstCallInit). The callback URL constructed by > the OAuth code returns you to the page you were editing, but in its > pre-edit state: i.e. you lose all your edits. > > How can I resume the edit and not lose my edit data? > > Thanks for any help, clues, or workarounds!
Store the submitted data in the session, then in the callback add a parameter that makes your extension to load the data from the session. It probably makes more sense to give your wiki server credentials to read the external db, though. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
