About parsing templates, I wrote a python function parseTemplate(), it returns a dictionary name:value and a list,  the order of parameters being recorded into the latter. There's too a rewrite function (to rebuild the template code into a "beautified" style from dict+list) and  a javascript version of both, using the same algorithm and the same idea.

Both are too rough to be implemented into "canonical" collections of scripts.

Alex




2013/9/5 Strainu <strainu10@gmail.com>
2013/9/5 legoktm <legoktm.wikipedia@gmail.com>:
> Hi Strainu,
>
> It's definitely a work in progress. There are very few features that have
> intentionally been removed, and all of those are explicitly marked with a
> "@deprecated" tag.

Glad to hear that!

>
> If there are features that you notice are missing that used to be available,
> filing a bug would be helpful so we can keep track of what still needs to be
> implemented.

What's the preferred bugtracker these days?

>
> Regarding templatesWithParams, using mwparserfromhell is probably the right
> way to go. I've started working on integrating that into the framework, but
> haven't gotten very far yet. We could probably use an OrderedDict[1] there
> too.

I thought templatesWithParams already uses mwparserfromhell by default?

Strainu

>
> [1]
> http://docs.python.org/2/library/collections.html#collections.OrderedDict
> -- Legoktm
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Strainu <strainu10@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm trying to convert a fairly large set of scripts from compat to
>> core and I found a significant loss of functionality in getting image
>> and template info. While writing this, I've noticed that the latest
>> version of core also has some of these prblems. I will elaborate on
>> this loss of functionality below, but I would like to know if this
>> simplification is intended or if this is part of some work in
>> progress.
>>
>> For the image parsing, the function linkedPages(withImageLinks = True)
>> used to provide images that were not included through templates, while
>> imageLinks would provide all the images. In core, the linkedPages
>> function no longer provides this capability, and I haven't found any
>> replacement (I ported the old function in my code)
>>
>> For template parsing, templatesWithParams from class Page used to
>> provide a pair containing the template name and a list of parameters,
>> with the full "key=value" string. Nowadays, we're getting a dictionary
>> instead of that list. Normally there is nothing wrong with that,
>> except that in Python 2 the dictionary is unordered, which means that:
>> * the order of the parameters is forever lost
>> * the original text cannot be reconstructed (because of the above and
>> the missing whitespace information) - this means there is no easy way
>> to identify and/or replace a particular instance of the template in a
>> page with many identical templates. It used to be you could do it with
>> simple find/replace operations, now it takes some more work.
>>
>> I personally would like to have the old behavior back, it would save
>> me and probably others a lot of work.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>   Strainu
>>
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