On Mon, 20 Feb 2017 at 10:42 John P. New wikitech@hazelden.ca wrote:
I've set up MW 1.28 with VE/parsoid and everything is working well
However, when I edit in (any) wikitext editor and try to switch to VE, I am presented with a dialog with only 2 choices: "Cancel" or "Discard my changes and switch". Diving into the code I found I could change ve.init.MWVESwitchConfirmDialog.js (line 58) from modes: [ 'restbase' ] to modes: [ 'restbase', 'simple' ]
that adds "Switch" to the dialog box, but when this option is chosen, any changes made in the wikitext editor are lost.
Is this a mis-configuration on my part or is switching from edited wikitext to VE not supported? Do I need a RESTbase server to implement this functionality?
RESTbase provides the switching-with-changes ability, yes. There's a reason VE doesn't offer switching-with-changes without it. :-) In general, fiddling with the code inside an extension is always going to break.
J.