| ArthurPSmith added a comment. |
I believe a way this could be done would be to allow the attachment of regular expressions to the formatter URL, and have the external id URL conversion code understand them. That is, if there was a qualifier property that specified "regex substitution" for example, the ISNI problem (of additional spaces within the id that must be removed for the formatter URL) would be handled by a value something like "s/\s+//g" (remove all spaces). Some of the others might need a "regex match" on the id that allows specifying a $1, $2, $3 grouping pattern, and the formatter URL then looks something like http://...../$1/$2/$3 (or that could also possibly be handled by a substitution as in the ISNI case). The IMDB case is more difficult because it's essential 4 different formatter URLs based on the first characters of the id, so it might need a "regex match" that limits the scope of each formatter URL based on the id; wikibase would then need to look through the match regexes to find a matching formatter URL and use that.
Cc: ArthurPSmith, hoo, Lydia_Pintscher, Nikki, Stigmj, Aklapper, Esc3300, QZanden, D3r1ck01, Izno, Wikidata-bugs, aude, Mbch331
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