Platonides <Platonides <at> gmail.com> writes: > 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.
Would you be able to provide a few pointers as to how to accomplish this? I am not familiar with the MW core code, having only really done extension hacking.I guess I need to be looking at the User class and methods like loadFromSession(). If you could direct me to some existing code I could base mine on, that would be really helpful. > It probably makes more sense to give your wiki server credentials to > read the external db, though. I don't have any control over this, unfortunately -- the external DB is run by a company and I have been unsuccessful in even finding out from them how long the DB access tokens are valid for. Thanks, Amelia. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
