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| -rw-r--r-- | IkiWiki/Plugin/edittemplate.pm | 19 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/ikiwiki/directive/edittemplate.mdwn | 18 |
2 files changed, 34 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/IkiWiki/Plugin/edittemplate.pm b/IkiWiki/Plugin/edittemplate.pm index e3ce5e3d9..c2a8da29f 100644 --- a/IkiWiki/Plugin/edittemplate.pm +++ b/IkiWiki/Plugin/edittemplate.pm @@ -139,6 +139,25 @@ sub filltemplate ($$) { $template->param(name => $page); + if ($template->query(name => 'uuid')) { + my $uuid; + if (open(my $fh, "<", "/proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid")) { + $uuid = <$fh>; + chomp $uuid; + close $fh; + } + else { + eval { + require UUID::Tiny; + $uuid = UUID::Tiny::create_uuid_as_string(UUID::Tiny::UUID_V4()); + }; + } + $template->param(uuid => $uuid); + } + + my $time = time(); + $template->param(time => IkiWiki::date_3339($time)); + return $template->output; } diff --git a/doc/ikiwiki/directive/edittemplate.mdwn b/doc/ikiwiki/directive/edittemplate.mdwn index a6f301dd3..6269f5dd8 100644 --- a/doc/ikiwiki/directive/edittemplate.mdwn +++ b/doc/ikiwiki/directive/edittemplate.mdwn @@ -27,8 +27,20 @@ something like: Details: The template page can also contain [[!cpan HTML::Template]] directives, -like other ikiwiki [[templates]]. Currently only one variable is -set: `<TMPL_VAR name>` is replaced with the name of the page being -created. +like other ikiwiki [[templates]]. + +These variables might be set: + +* `<TMPL_VAR name>` is replaced with the name of the page being + created. + +* `<TMPL_VAR uuid>` is replaced with a version 4 (random) UUID + suitable for use in `\[[!meta guid="urn:uuid:<TMPL_VAR uuid>"]]`. + (Requires the `UUID::Tiny` Perl module if not running on Linux.) + +* `<TMPL_VAR time>` is replaced with the current (template generation) + time using a fixed format (RFC 3339, `%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ`), + suitable for use in `\[[!meta date="<TMPL_VAR time>"]]` + (see [[meta]]) or `\[[!date "<TMPL_VAR time>"]]` (see [[date]]). [[!meta robots="noindex, follow"]] |