Using _editedtext as a HTTP parameter should work. As in
http://sandbox.jspwiki.org/Edit.jsp?page=About&_editedtext=Foobar
However, this is not guaranteed to work in future versions of JSPWiki!
But it is improbable that it would break either.
/Janne
On 24 Feb 2009, at 22:39, Brian Burch wrote:
I've been following a couple of recent threads on related topics.
I've also read the documentation on processing flow and looked quite
closely at the code. I suspect this is a relatively common
requirement and want to be sure I am using (or coding) the most
appropriate solution.
After exploring ImagePlugin and SlideShowPlugin, I decided neither
suited my problem well enough. I also feel that uploading images to
my wiki is not appropriate, given the way I manage my photo
collection as a file system directory tree on the same machine as my
wiki.
I have already written, but not yet completely generalised my own
PhotoCollectionPlugin (yes, it does have its own junit test suite!)
It assumes the jspWiki webapp has direct access (or via a symlink)
to a hierarchical directory structure that holds a photo collection.
My idea is to incorporate my existing digital photograph collection
into my wiki. The directory structure already provides the
components of the wiki page names and titles, thus immediately
seeding the search engine with important keywords, such as the year,
month/season or holiday location. As and when me and my family have
the enthusiasm, we can then add narrative to a wiki page associated
with each individual subdirectory or photo, thus enhancing the
richness of our "searchscape".
In other words, one only needs to manually create a page for the
"root" of the photo collection and insert a call to my plugin. From
that simple start, the wiki has the potential to "grow" throughout
the photo collection as users choose to create new wiki pages. At
the same time, new photo directories and images can be added and
will immediately become "potential" new wiki pages.
At this stage of the development, I manually insert plugin
statements to associate a particular wiki page with a particular
node or leaf. If the target is a photo, the plugin can insert a
thumbnail as well as the hyperlink. If the target wiki page already
exists, the plugin generates a standard Wiki.jsp hyperlink to that
page. On the other hand, if the photo (or directory) exists, but the
corresponding wiki page does not, then the hyperlink calls Edit.jsp
to create it when/if the link is eventually followed.
Manual insertion of these plugin statements is tedious and error-
prone, so only suitable for development. My plugin already knows
exactly what should be inserted when it would be (quasi-recursively)
called at the time of creating the new wiki page, so there is no
need to involve the end user in this crucial operation of "wiring"
the photo collection structure into the wiki.
In the ideal world (where is that, by the way...?) I would pass my
generated plugin statement for the target page as a parameter in the
url, something along these lines (line breaks inserted for clarity):
<div><a class="createpage"
href="/wiki/Edit.jsp?
page=FilesPictures2001P2170018.JPG&
insertText=[{INSERT PhotoCollectionPlugin photodir='/2001/
P2170019.JPG'}]"
title="Create "Files Pictures 2001 P2170018.JPG"">Files
Pictures 2001 P2170018.JPG</a>.</div>
i.e., following this hyperlink would trigger the creation of the new
wiki page, pre-seeded with the correct plugin invocation to "wire
up" the underlying image file or directory.
My problem is how best to intercept the page creation event and use
the generated jsp parameter value to insert a wiki text string "as
if" the user had decided to type it and save the contents?
I've looked at wiki variables, but don't see how to use them in my
situation.
I've looked at writing my own template, but this doesn't feel like
the best approach - I am not trying to change the look and feel of
every single page in my wiki - only to feed knowledge from an
existing wiki page of "a special kind" into a related-but-yet-to-
exist wiki page of the "same kind".
Janne's recent tip about writing a Filter seems more suitable and
I'm not afraid of writing java code. However, it feels wrong for me
to be writing code specifically for my plugin that ought to be
generally useful... i.e. to watch for the presence of a jsp command
parameter and insert its value into the initial content of a new
wiki page.
Have I overlooked something obvious? Suggestions would be very
welcome - especially before I start writing more code!
Regards,
Brian
p.s. thanks for the impressive project! It is hard to take the whole
thing in and make sense of it because I wasn't aware of it earlier
in its development life.
