Someone can feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but currently user
preferences uses an HTMLForm object to handle everything, and new
preferences can be added arbitrarily using the GetPreferences hook. I'd
imagine this will definitely be supported in the future as it is the
primary way for extensions to add new user preferences.
As such, the only real restriction on the key size is that of the database,
which is currently varbinary(32). Since each preference gets its own row,
there is no limit on how many extensions can be added (unless you count
limits on the size of the database).
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*Tyler Romeo*
Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015
Major in Computer Science
www.whizkidztech.com | tylerromeo(a)gmail.com
On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 8:37 PM, MZMcBride <z(a)mzmcbride.com> wrote:
Forwarding from
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40124#c0>:
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A lot more functionality around user preferences was added with
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/5126/
Thank you for that.
Recently I found that one can add new options (''keys''). This is very
useful for Community scripts. So I hope this was intentional behaviour and
this bug is about clarifying that.
What in particular, I'd like to know is:
* Will it be supported in future?
* Which max. size (i.e. how many bytes) can the pref have?
* How many prefs can be added?
* Is it possible to remove one particular pref without having to reset all?
Again, it would be really useful if I could get started using this feature.
Currently I have to publicly store user prefs for my scripts using (
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-SettingsManager.js )
in
their common or <skin>.js. Having a private place to store them would be
great, especially because one can retrieve them with both, the API and they
are by default in mw.user.options JavaScript RL module.
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Any help in answering these questions on this list and/or on the bug would
be great.
MZMcBride
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