Opened 14 years ago
Closed 9 years ago
#8189 closed defect (wontfix)
RelativeWikiFormatter: Erroneous link-rendering of page words iff a wiki page with that name exists
Reported by: | jholg | Owned by: | |
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Priority: | normal | Component: | HierWikiPlugin |
Severity: | normal | Keywords: | |
Cc: | Trac Release: | 0.11 |
Description
The HierWikiPlugin uses an internal "pagebase" in its formatter module that is basically supposed to hold the "subpages-prefix" of a wiki page. However, for trivial, non-hierarchical wiki page names the current implementation resolves to an empty pagebase, in effect selecting all wiki page names for its page selector pattern:
>>> PAGES = ['Foo', 'Bar', 'Moo', 'Moo/Boo']>>> pagename = 'Foo' >>> pagebase = '/'.join(pagename.split('/')[:-1]) >>> if pagebase != '': ... pagebase += '/' ... >>> print pagebase >>> pages = set([p[len(pagebase):] for p in PAGES if p.startswith(pagebase)]) >>> pattern = r'\b(?P<relwiki>' + '|'.join(pages) + r')\b' >>> print pattern \b(?P<relwiki>Moo|Foo|Bar|Moo/Boo)\b >>>
Which leads to
- a normal word (e.g. Bar) on a wiki page being rendered as a link, although it is not in WikiPage syntax and there is no link syntax ([... ]) involved
- if there is an existing wiki page of this same name ('Bar')
- but unfortunately the link target is 'wikiBar' rather than 'wiki/Bar' due to this Href class behaviour:
>>> href = Href('www.example.org') >>> href('', 'name') 'www.example.org//name' >>>
So if you click on this link you'll end up creating a wiki page '/Bar'.
Note that this behaviour manifests itself only after a recreation of the RelativeWikiFormatter instance, i.e. after you restart tracd/apache/... or disable and re-enable the plugin component (reason: see below). Attached patch fixes this, by using a pages_re that only matches for actual 'page/subpage/...' of page: Fixed RelativeWikiFormatter pages_re creation to only match for rendering relative subpages (page/subpage/...) of the currently to-be-rendered page. This also corrects the erroneous rendering of non-CamelCase-named regular wiki pages as links, with an offending leading slash in the link target href.
In effect, on a page "Team" with subpage "Team/Lead" and the page source text
TitleIndex WikiStart Lead Team/Lead
this is the rendering behaviour:
TitleIndex --> rendered as link, links to (existing) wiki page TitleIndex WikiStart --> rendered as link, links to (existing) wiki page WikiStart Lead --> rendered as link, links to sub-page Team/Lead Team/Lead --> rendered as link, links to (existing) wiki page Team/Lead
While this fixes the (imho) erroneous linking of arbitrary page names without WikiPageName syntax, it generally only renders subpages after RelativeWikiFormatter has been reloaded/recreated.
This is due to this source code line which does not do what it's intended to do, in my understanding:
WikiSystem(self.env)._compiled_rules = None
As the WikiSystem instance does not have any _compiled_rules attribute this line is without any effect (maybe this worked in older Trac releases, I don't know).
The _compiled_rules attribute belongs to the Formatter instance, and so far I haven't found a way to force the syntax providers to be reloaded. My Trac knowledge is somewhat limited...
Patch: attachment:subpage_link_rendering.diff
Holger
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Change History (3)
Changed 14 years ago by
Attachment: | subpage_link_rendering.diff added |
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comment:1 Changed 10 years ago by
Owner: | Noah Kantrowitz deleted |
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comment:2 Changed 9 years ago by
Resolution: | → wontfix |
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Status: | new → closed |
The plugin is deprecated since Trac has equivalent functionality as of trac:milestone:1.1.2. If you find any missing function please open a ticket for Trac.
only provide link-rendering syntax for actual page subpages