Feature Proposal: replace the SPLIT and REPEAT mess in the search templates

Motivation

search.xxx.tmpl, searchformat.xxx.tmpl, searchmeta.xxx.tmpl, searchbookview.xxx.tmpl all expand to a standalone html document, with header, ADDTOHEAD processing etc.

Then, in 99% of uses, all this is thrown away in some confusing mess of regex split code, splitting on the keywords SPLIT and REPEAT.

Description and Documentation

I'd like to replace this by defining the following

• TMPL:DEF{SEARCH:header}
• TMPL:DEF{SEARCH:format}
• TMPL:DEF{SEARCH:footer}
• TMPL:DEF{SEARCH:pager}
• TMPL:DEF{SEARCH:searched}
• TMPL:DEF{SEARCH:count}
• and whatever else is hidden in the code for legacy

• search.xxx.tmpl - used for SEARCH calls with not formatting - needs to be made pretty
• searchformat.xxx.tmpl - used for SEARCH when format is defined.
• searchmeta.xxx.tmpl - used for SEARCHMETA and might be redundant
• searchbookview.xxx.tmpl - used to bookview - which may be turned off by default as it eats your server. (this really could do with being extracted into a custom plugin if it doesn't see much use.

Impact

this change will have no impact on end users except for those that defined their own tmpl files and haven't upgraded their specification replace the SPLIT.

WhatDoesItAffect:

Implementation

-- Contributors: SvenDowideit - 10 Mar 2010

Discussion

Go for it. Long overdue. Only informal concern is: how do I maintain a skin that must run on engines with a revamped template landscape as well as what we currently have? A context tag for the Foswiki version would solve it...

-- MichaelDaum - 10 Mar 2010

yes, I will take a poke at seeing what alternatives we have wrt skinning for both 1.0 and post. I hope that we don't have to resort to a version context, as we only have the eq operation, not the gt we'd really need.

-- SvenDowideit - 10 Mar 2010

Proposal has been accepted by 14-day rule. No concern has been raised.

Go ahead Sven. Remember the feature freeze dead line of 1st of April if you want it in 1.1

-- KennethLavrsen - 24 Mar 2010

core changes done.

-- SvenDowideit - 26 Mar 2010