Opened 18 years ago
Closed 18 years ago
#447 closed defect (fixed)
Displaying blog entries with a certain tag on a page that has this tag too leads to a neverending recursion
| Reported by: | tdad | Owned by: | John Hampton |
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| Priority: | normal | Component: | TracBlogPlugin |
| Severity: | critical | Keywords: | recursion blog tags |
| Cc: | chief@… | Trac Release: | 0.9 |
Description
i wanted to display blog-entries tagged with trac on a certain page. i saved the page and wondered why the original content was then displayed about 30 times in series. then i realized that i tagged the page, i wanted to display the entries on, with trac too. so it tried to "include" itself on and on. shouldn't there be some possibility to differentiate between wiki-pages and blog-entries? i don't want to get wiki-pages displayed in a blog-listing that are accidentally tagged with the same tag, the blog "listens" on.
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comment:1 Changed 18 years ago by
| Summary: | Using "trac" as a blog-tag leads possibly to a neverending recursion → Displaying blog entries with a certain tag on a page that has this tag too leads to a neverending recursion |
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comment:2 Changed 18 years ago by
| Status: | new → assigned |
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Well, I'll agree that the recursion is definitely a bug. I'll try to fix it in the next day or two. As a work around, you can add the BlogShow to the Macro Blacklist option of the ini file. (Easiest to do so through webadmin plugin).
Now, on the next point, what would you suggest? Blog posts ARE wiki pages. The tag is the only thing that *sort of* differentiates the two. I'll also add that it's intentional that there is no real distinction between wiki pages and blog entries.
However, that being said. It doesn't make since to include the page that is trying to display the blog. If I can determine which page is calling the BlogShow macro, then it'll be easy enough to simply remove that page from the results. Would that be sufficient? Or were you thinking about something else?
comment:3 follow-up: 4 Changed 18 years ago by
i don't know the one and only truth. i was first thinking of some special database flag for blog pages but i wasn't sure about his one because i didn't know the reason why you're handling blog pages as normal wiki pages (convinience?). maybe some hint in the readme-file to not tag wiki pages like a blog would be enough?
comment:4 Changed 18 years ago by
You can think of the tags as those special database flags :)
Convenience is one reason that I decided to use wiki pages. The other reason is that I don't see why blog pages really have to be different. I like the idea that I can create a "blog" of any topic in my site.
I'll try to make a note in the documentation that makes the difference a little clearer. I'll also try to implement the changes that I mentioned in my last comment
comment:5 Changed 18 years ago by
don't get me wrong. i like the idea, too. i was just thinking of an additional flag that prevents "normal" wiki pages from being included in the blog listing. as the wiki engine wouldn't (hopefully?) care about this flag, the blog entries could still be displayed as wiki pages as well.
comment:6 Changed 18 years ago by
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | assigned → closed |
(In [935]) Part of the reason for not including a special flag is the whole complexity deal. Right now the blog plugin doesn't have to update the enviroment in anyway. This is nice. Also, normal wiki pages aren't tagged with anything by default. Blog pages should be tagged with 'blog' by default, unless you specifically go into webadmin and change the 'Default Tag' setting.
- Added
BlogShowmacro to the macro blacklist. It need not be specified in the 'Macro Blacklist' webadmin option. - Added a check for recursive reference. The
BlogShowmacro will not render the page from which it is called if it happens to be one of the pages in the list of tagged blog entries - Closes #447
fixed the title a bit.