Mediawiki RawFile

Introduction

The idea is to be able to download directly a portion of code as a file.
I've numerous code examples in my wiki and I wast an easy way to download them, easier than a copy/paste!

• It must work with pre, nowiki, js, css, code, source, so let's make it general: take the tag that comes after the parser function we'll create and select data up to the closing tag.

2 parts:

• the parser magic word that will be converted into a "Save it as <filename>"
• an extended action=raw that will strip the raw output to keep the desired code

Documentation

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Extensions
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Magic_words
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Parser_functions
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Parser_function
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Hooks/RawPageViewBeforeOutput

Syntax

{{#rawsnippet: myscript.sh}}
Do we need a MIME type?
Transformation:
[{{fullurl:{{PAGENAME}}|action=raw&rawsnippet=myscript.sh}} myscript.sh]
Test: save the following code as {{#rawsnippet: myscript.sh}}

#!/bin/bash

echo 'Hello world!'
exit 0

Hook on Raw

• Must extract the right paragraph
  • Strip all up to the right rawsnippet: filename tag
  • Find the next tag
  • Select up to the closure tag
• Must provide the filename to the browser