...and inspired, I just submitted
https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Writing_Visual_Editor_and_Parsoid_extensions
  --scott

On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 3:15 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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