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

Syntax

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

#!/bin/bash

echo 'Hello world!'
exit 0

{{#rawsnippet: myscript.sh}} combines in fact 2 elements: the text that will be replaced by the link and the anchor just before the code section.
We can separate both functionalities with:

One such declaration, just before the code section: {{#rawsnippetAnchor: myscript.sh}}

One or many such declarations to create the download links: {{#rawsnippetLink: myscript.sh}}

Example: {{#rawsnippetanchor: myotherscript.sh}}

#!/bin/bash

echo 'Hello earth!'
exit 0

[{{#rawsnippetlink: myotherscript.sh}} myotherscript.sh is available now below the code]

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
Tells the browser NOT to cache the raw

The code

Which you can of course download just by following [{{#rawsnippetlink: RawSnippet.php}} this link :-)]

So let's explain a bit the code in a Literate Programming way...

First some hooks for our functions... {{#rawsnippetanchor: RawSnippet.php}}

<?php

if (defined('MEDIAWIKI')) {

# Define a setup function
$wgExtensionFunctions[] = 'efRawSnippet_Setup';
# Add a hook to initialise the magic word
$wgHooks['LanguageGetMagic'][]       = 'efRawSnippet_Magic';
# Add a hook to intercept the raw output
$wgHooks['RawPageViewBeforeOutput'][] = 'fnRawSnippet_Strip';

Then the function to strip the code out of the raw wiki page, quite heavy as we've to parse the wiki page ourselves... {{#rawsnippetanchor: RawSnippet.php}}

function fnRawSnippet_Strip(&$rawPage, &$text) {
    // if our ext wasn't used, just exit
    if (!isset($_GET['rawsnippet']))
        return true;
    $filename=$_GET['rawsnippet'];
// debug:
if (0) {
    header("Content-disposition:filename=".$filename);
    header("Content-type:application/octetstream"); 
    header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary"); 
} else {
    header("Content-type:text/plain"); 
}
    header("Expires: 0");
    header("Pragma: no-cache"); 
    header("Cache-Control: no-store");
    // First: find the right anchor
    // We mask nowiki sections
//TODO also mask source, js, css, pre, what else?
    //test2 will contain interpretable content, all static content is blanked out
    $maskedtext=preg_replace_callback('/<nowiki>(.*?)<\/nowiki>/', 
        create_function(
           '$matches',
           'return ereg_replace(".","X",$matches[0]);'
        ),
        $text);
    // We search rawsnippet anchor position
    if (preg_match_all('/{{#rawsnippetanchor: +'.$filename.' *}}/i', $maskedtext, $matches, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE))
        $offsets=$matches[0];
    else if (preg_match_all('/{{#rawsnippet: +'.$filename.' *}}/i', $maskedtext, $matches, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE))
        // If the shortcut "rawsnippet" is used, no nuweb, just the first hit is considered
        $offsets=array($matches[0][0]);
    else
        // We didn't find our anchor, let's output all the raw...
// TODO change headers & send error msg
        return true;
    // free some mem
    unset($maskedtext);
    $textorig=$text;
    $text='';
    foreach ($offsets as $offset) {
        // Now let's remove the text up to our anchor
        $out = substr($textorig, $offset[1]);
        // What's the type of tag do we have?
        $out = substr($out, strpos($out, '<'));
        if (!preg_match('/^<([^> ]+)/', $out, $matches))
// TODO send error, we could not find end of bloc
            return true;
        $key = $matches[1];
        // Let's extract the text up to the closing tag
        $begin = strpos($out, '>')+1;
        if (ord(substr($out,$begin,1))==10)
            $begin++;
        if (preg_match_all('/<\/'.$key.'>/', $out, $matches, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE))
            $text .= substr($out, $begin, $matches[0][0][1]-$begin);
        else
// TODO send error, we could not find end of bloc
            $text .= substr($out, $begin);
    }

    header("Content-Length: ".strlen($text)); 
    return true;
    //TODO: downloadAs..
}

That's again part of the hooks... {{#rawsnippetanchor: RawSnippet.php}}

function efRawSnippet_Setup() {
    global $wgParser;
    # Set a function hook associating the "rawsnippet" magic word with our function
    $wgParser->setFunctionHook( 'rawsnippet', 'efRawSnippet_Render' );
    $wgParser->setFunctionHook( 'rawsnippetlink', 'efRawSnippet_Render' );
    $wgParser->setFunctionHook( 'rawsnippetanchor', 'efRawSnippet_Empty' );
}

This part as well... {{#rawsnippetanchor: RawSnippet.php}}

function efRawSnippet_Magic( &$magicWords, $langCode ) {
    # Add the magic word
    # The first array element is case sensitive, in this case it is not case sensitive
    # All remaining elements are synonyms for our parser function
    $magicWords['rawsnippet'] = array( 0, 'rawsnippet', 'downloadAs' );
    $magicWords['rawsnippetlink'] = array( 0, 'rawsnippetlink', 'downloadLink' );
    $magicWords['rawsnippetanchor'] = array( 0, 'rawsnippetanchor', 'downloadAnchor' );
    # unless we return true, other parser functions extensions will not get loaded.
    return true;
}

The transformation rule to replace link shortcuts to actual links for download {{#rawsnippetanchor: RawSnippet.php}}

function efRawSnippet_Render( &$parser, $filename = '') {
    # The parser function itself
    # The input parameters are wikitext with templates expanded
    # The output should be wikitext too
    return '{{fullurl:{{PAGENAME}}|action=raw&rawsnippet='.$filename.'}}';
//TODO+support for other pages
}

Credits :-) {{#rawsnippetanchor: RawSnippet.php}}

$wgExtensionCredits['parserhook'][] = array('name' => 'RawSnippet',
                           'version' => '0.1',
                           'author' => 'Philippe Teuwen',
//                         'url' => 'http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LocalServer',
                           'url' => 'http://wiki.yobi.be/wiki/Mediawiki_RawSnippet',
                           'description' => 'Downloads a RAW copy of <nowiki><tag>data</tag></nowiki> in a file<br>'.
                                            'Useful e.g. to download an example code or a patch<br>'.
                                            'It also opens the path to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming Literate Programming]');
}

?>

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