Uh, that sounds nifty. Thanks for that!

On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 12:15 PM C. Scott Ananian <[email protected]>
wrote:

> More related functionality: Parsoid supports JSON as a contenttype, and
> emits a special type of table (the same as the HTML table generated by the
> HTML handler for JSON in mediawiki).  You can edit this in VE, although w/o
> any special support, and Parsoid will serialize it back to JSON.
>
> This could be turned into a very pleasant type-aware editor for JSON in VE
> pretty easily.
>  --scott
>
> On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 2:23 AM, Denny Vrandečić <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > Here's my requirement:
> > - a wiki page is one JSON document
> > - when editing, the user edits the JSON directly
> > - when viewing, I have a viewer that turns the JSON into wikitext, and
> that
> > wikitext gets rendered as wikitext and turned into HTML by MediaWiki
> >
> > I have several options, including:
> >
> > 1) hook for a tag like <json>, and write an extension that parses the
> > content between the tags and turns it into wikitext (not ideal, as I
> don't
> > use any of the existing support for JSON stuff, and also I could have
> > several such tags per page, which does not fit with my requirements)
> >
> > 2) I found the JsonConfig extension by yurik. This allows me to do almost
> > all of the things above - but it returns HTML directly, not wikitext. It
> > doesn't seem trivial to be able to return wikitext instead of HTML, but
> > hopefully I am wrong? Also, this ties in nicely with the Code Editor.
> >
> > 3) there is actually a JsonContentHandler in core. But looking through it
> > it seems that this suffers from the same limitations - I can return HTML,
> > but not wikitext.
> >
> > 3 seems to have the advantage to be more actively worked on that 2 (which
> > is not based on 3, probably because it is older than 3). So future
> goodies
> > like a Json Schema validator will probably go to 3, but not to 2, so I
> > should probably go to 3.
> >
> > Writing this down, one solution could be to create the wikitext, and then
> > call the wikitext parser manually and have it create HTML?
> >
> > I have already developed the extension in 1, and then fully rewritten it
> in
> > 2.  Before I go and rewrite it again in 3, I wanted to ask whether I am
> > doing it right, or if should do it completely differently, and also if
> > there are examples of stuff developed in 3, i.e. of extensions or
> features
> > using the JsonContent class.
> >
> > Example:
> > I have a JSON document
> > { "username": "Denny" }
> > which gets turned into wikitext
> > ''Hello, [[User:Denny|Denny]]!''
> > which then gets turned into the right HTML and displayed to the user,
> e.g.
> > <i>Hello, <a href="...">Denny</a>!</i>
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Denny
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