On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Rolf Lampa rolf.lampa@rilnet.com wrote:

I need some hints about how to go about to create a dump filter and a plugin for dumpBackup.php.

If anyone has done a filter or plugin before, or have a link to an example, I'd be very happy to take advice. :)

Here's a supposedly working example:

php dumpBackup.php \ --plugin=AbstractFilter:extensions/ActiveAbstract/AbstractFilter.php \ --current \ --output=gzip:/dumps/abstract.xml.gz \ --filter=namespace:NS_MAIN \ --filter=noredirect \ --filter=abstract

Would be interested to see your working plugin code once it's ready, there doesn't seem to be much documentation on this. Perhaps you could post to mediawiki.org.

Joshua

Rolf Lampa wrote:

Hi all,

I need some hints about how to go about to create a dump filter and a plugin for dumpBackup.php.

Since I'm a Delphi programmer I'll probably do well the programming of the inner details, if I only knew how the stub for a filter (& a plugin) should look.

I need to do quite extensive examination of the text content of articles before knowing what to keep and what to skip. Sometimes I'd like to even modify the text before dumping it. Hints about how to design a plugin would also be apprechiated.

Options according to the dumpBackup.php file: --plugin=<class>[:<file>] --filter=<type>[:<options>]

If anyone has done a filter or plugin before, or have a link to an example, I'd be very happy to take advice. :)

// Rolf Lampa

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Take a look at the ActiveAbstract plugin to see a basic example at work.

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ActiveAbstract

Were currently using it to filter the Yahoo! Abstracts feed and it should let you know about what's needed.

I have a lot of notes on the backup system that still need to be put online and I'll make sure to note some tidbits about general plugin architecture as well.

--tomasz