Hmm, have to keep templates then. Thanks. On 19 June 2013 17:05, Daniel Friesen <dan...@nadir-seen-fire.com> wrote: > On Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:06:10 -0700, Stephan Gambke <s7ep...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am struggling with Lua. >> >> Is there a way to somehow maintain the state of the page building >> between calls to #invoke? A kind of page-wide variable mechanism or >> something like that? >> >> Problem: I have what is basically a bugtracker where each bug is >> described on a wiki page. For each state change of the bug (new, >> confirmed, fixed, verified, closed) I add a call to a template to the >> page text. The problem is, that the text generated by the template >> depends on both the origin and the target state. Until now I used the >> variables extension to keep track of the current state. Now I want to >> convert to Lua. Apart from the fact that it is clearly not desirable >> to mix the use of the variables extension and Lua, it is also >> impossible: When Scribunto's #invoke is called, parser functions are >> already parsed. >> >> So, what is the solution? >> >> Cheers, >> Stephan > > > I'm pretty sure that Scribundo is specifically designed to make #invoke > calls isolated from other calls. Short of trying to find and exploit bugs > that are unpredictable and will eventually be patched there is no way you're > going to get state between calls. > > -- > ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://danielfriesen.name/] > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
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