The quick solution would probably be for you to extend PageNameTag to
provide your own prettification routine, if the page name appears to
be a part of your photo collection. Then you can use your own tag in
the template, or you can replace the regular PageNameTag by editing
jspwiki.tld.
And hey, that's why this list is for - no large software project can
be grasped easily, so it's good to have a place where you can ask
stuff ;-)
/Janne
On 8 Apr 2009, at 19:25, Brian Burch wrote:
I am still working on my new PhotoCollection plugin. Thanks to
Janne's previous help, I have an ugly version working and am trying
to improve its appearance before making it generally available.
Because my design accesses an external directory tree (and might
access more than one in a future version), I need to generate wiki
page names that are very likely to be unique, which means they tend
to be a bit long-winded because they carry a lot of the file system
path,
e.g. FilesPictures2008_04-franceDSCF1234.JPG
One of the most valuable features of my plugin is that users can add
text information to each directory and image, but even if they add
nothing the page titles will automatically provide valuable search
criteria, e.g. what photos did I take in my several visits to France?
My plugin already has the logic to generate these "probably unique"
wiki page names, but it also creates "human friendly" titles for the
pages, which are not intended to be unique at all,
e.g. Photos 2008 04-france DSCF1234.JPG
I've been trying hard to follow the jspWiki execution sequence
starting from Edit.jsp and referring to JSPWikiForDummies. I can see
how it achieves something similar to what I want to do....
<meta name="wikiEditUrl" content='/Edit.jsp?page=JSPWikiForDummies' />
and
<div class="pagename">JSP Wiki For Dummies</div>
This is controlled by the jspwiki.properties value for
jspwiki.breakTitleWithSpaces, but I want to use my own logic rather
than this "standard" mapping.
I have a (more-or-less) camelcase wiki page name and I want to
assign a different (human-friendly, non-unique) page title when
creating the new page.
My plugin running under the "parent page" generates the appropriate
wiki text of the "child" page plugin and inserts it into the url via
the _editedtext (undocumented) servlet parameter.
When the new "child" wiki page is saved, my plugin generates its own
friendly title.
1. I could store the friendly title as a page variable, e.g. called
friendlyPageName.
2. I could clone Header.jsp to create my own localheader.jsp, but
substitute the line:
<div class="pagename"><wiki:PageName /></div>
with something like this:
<div class="pagename"><wiki:Variable var="friendlyPageName"
default="pagename" /></div>
The intention is to allow the normal breakTitleWithSpaces behaviour
to occur with any page that does not embed this particular plugin.
Would this solution work, or have I overlooked something important?
Can anyone save me some time with an opinion? I'll get there in the
end, but jspWiki is so complex that it takes me ages to grasp how
even quite simple things happen (sorry!).
Brian
