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diff --git a/doc/todo/support_dicts_in_setup.mdwn b/doc/todo/support_dicts_in_setup.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c89158e21 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/support_dicts_in_setup.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +It would be nice for some plugins to use hashes as setup data structures +(which ones? pagespec aliases for one. Any others?), but these cannot +currently be adequately described in `getsetup()`, nor represented in +`websetup()`. It would be nice to extend ikiwiki to support this. + +I've had an initial go at how to represent this in a nice way within a HTML +page. An initial mock up is available at +<https://github.com/jmtd/ikiwiki/blob/websetup_hashes/hash.html>. The +approach taken is to use a javascript hash/dictionary as the canonical copy of +the data; to express that in the form elements, and to capture all relevant +events to update the main data structure (and the HTML representations +thereof). + +I imagine packing the js structure into a form element which is posted, and +ignoring the other form element data. + +This would mean mandating javascript support for editing such hashes. + +— [[Jon]] |