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Consider the "All files in this package search" on
<http://packages.debian.org>. The URL for such a search looks like this:
http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?word=packagename&searchmode=filelist&case=insensitive&version=unstable&arch=i386
To create a "debfiles" [[shortcut|shortcuts]] that takes a package name, you
could just hardcode the architecture and distribution:
\[[!shortcut name=debfiles url="http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?word=%s&searchmode=filelist&case=insensitive&version=unstable&arch=i386"]]
\[[!debfiles ikiwiki]]
But what if you could have them as optional parameters instead? The syntax
for the invocation should look like this:
\[[!debfiles ikiwiki dist=testing]]
Some possible syntax choices for the shortcut definition:
\[[!shortcut name=debfiles url="http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?word=%s&searchmode=filelist&case=insensitive&version=%(dist)s&arch=%(arch)s" dist="unstable" arch="i386"]]
\[[!shortcut name=debfiles url="http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?word=%s&searchmode=filelist&case=insensitive&version=%(dist=unstable)s&arch=%(arch=i386)s"]]
\[[!shortcut name=debfiles url="http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?word=%s&searchmode=filelist&case=insensitive&version=%{dist=unstable}&arch=%{arch=i386}"]]
\[[!shortcut name=debfiles url="http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?word=$*&searchmode=filelist&case=insensitive&version=${dist=unstable}&arch=${arch=i386}"]]
--[[JoshTriplett]]
Well, you can already do this kind of thing with templates. Invocation does
look different:
\[[!template id=debfiles package=ikiwiki dist=testing]]
--[[Joey]]
> I think I would find templates sufficient, if:
>
> 1. I could use the name of the template as a preprocessor directive
> (`\[[!templatename ...]]`), rather than using the `template` directive
> with an `id` argument (`\[[!template id=templatename]]`).
> 2. Template invocation allowed bare values in addition to `key=value`
> arguments, and template definition supported some means to access the
> value. This would allow `\[[!debfiles ikiwiki]]` rather than
> `\[[!debfiles package=ikiwiki]]`.
> 3. I could use ikiwiki syntax in the template, not just HTML and
> HTML::Template. (If I can already do that, then [[/plugins/template]]
> should make that more clear.)
>
> --[[JoshTriplett]]
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