ParserHooks
OOP interface for creating MediaWiki parser hooks in a declarative fashion.
Requirements
- PHP 5.3 or later
- ParamProcessor 1.0 or later
- MediaWiki 1.16 or later
Installation
You can use Composer to download and install this package as well as its dependencies. Alternatively you can simply clone the git repository and take care of loading yourself.
Composer
To add this package as a local, per-project dependency to your project, simply add a
dependency on mediawiki/parser-hooks
to your project's composer.json
file.
Here is a minimal example of a composer.json
file that just defines a dependency on
ParserHooks 1.2:
{
"require": {
"mediawiki/parser-hooks": "1.2.*"
}
}
Manual
Get the ParserHooks code, either via git, or some other means. Also get all dependencies. You can find a list of the dependencies in the "require" section of the composer.json file. Load all dependencies and the load the ParserHooks library by including its entry point: ParserHooks.php.
Usage
All classes are located in the ParserHooks namespace, which is PSR-0 mapped onto the src/ directory.
General concept
The declarative OOP interface provided by this library allows you to define the signatures of your parser hooks and the handlers for them separately. The library makes use of the parameters specified in this definition to do parameter processing via the ParamProcessor library. This means that the handler you write for your parser function will not need to care about what the name of the parser function is, or how the parameters for it should be processed. It has a "sizes" parameter that takes an array of positive integers? Your handler will always get an actual PHP array of integer without needing to do any parsing, validation, defaulting, etc.
HookDefinition
An instance of the HookDefinition class represents the signature of a parser hook. It defines the name of the parser hook and the parameters (including their types, default values, etc) it accepts. It does not define any behaviour, and is thus purely declarative. Instances of this class are used in handling of actual parser hooks, though can also be used in other contexts. For instance, you can feed these definitions to a tool that generates parser hook documentation based on them.
The parameter definitions are ParamProcessor\ParamDefinition objects. See the ParamProcessor documentation on how to specify these.
HookHandler
The actual behaviour for your parser hook is implemented in an implementation of HookHandler. These implementations have a handle method which gets a Parser and a ParamProcssor\ProcessingResult, which is supposed to return a string.
Knitting it all together
This library also provides two additional classes, FunctionRunner, and HookRegistrant. The former takes care of invoking the ParamProcessor library based on a HookDefinition. The later takes care of registering the parser hooks defined by your HookDefinition objects to a MediaWiki Parser object.
$awesomeHookDefinition = new HookDefinition( 'awesome', array( /* ... */ ) );
$anotherHookDefinition = new HookDefinition( 'another', array( /* ... */ ) );
$awesomeHookHandler = new AwesomeHookHandler( /* ... */ );
$anotherHookHandler = new AnotherHookHandler( /* ... */ );
$hookRegistrant = new HookRegistrant( $mediaWikiParser );
$hookRegistrant->registerFunctionHandler( $awesomeHookDefinition, $awesomeHookHandler );
$hookRegistrant->registerFunctionHandler( $anotherHookDefinition, $anotherHookHandler );
If you want to have the same hook, but with other default behaviour, you can avoid any kind of duplication by doing something as follows on top of the above code:
$hookRegistrant->registerFunctionHandler( $extraAwesomeHookDefinition, $awesomeHookHandler );
Where $extraAwesomeHookDefinition is a variation of $awesomeHookDefinition.
Parser functions and tag hooks
To register a parser function, use HookRegistrant::registerFunctionHandler.
$hookRegistrant->registerFunctionHandler( $awesomeHookDefinition, $awesomeHookHandler );
To register a tag hook, use HookRegistrant::registerHookHandler.
$hookRegistrant->registerHookHandler( $awesomeHookDefinition, $awesomeHookHandler );
Both functions take the exact same arguments, so once you created a HookDefinition and a HookHandler, you can have them registered as both parser function and tag hook with no extra work.
Tests
This library comes with a set up PHPUnit tests that cover all non-trivial code. You can run these tests using the PHPUnit configuration file found in the root directory. The tests can also be run via TravisCI, as a TravisCI configuration file is also provided in the root directory.
Authors
ParserHooks has been written by Jeroen De Dauw as a hobby project to support the SubPageList MediaWiki extension.
Release notes
1.2 (2013-09-30)
- Fixed parameter handling bug in FunctionRunner
- Added system test for tag hook handling
1.1 (2013-09-25)
- Added HookRunner and HookRegistrant::registerHook
- Added HookRegistrant::registerFunctionHandler and HookRegistrant::registerHookHandler
- Fixed parameter handling bug in FunctionRunner
- Improved HookRegistrantTest
You can read the release blog post
1.0.1 (2013-09-22)
- Improved HookDefinition documentation
- Added extra type checking in HookDefinition
- Added extra tests for HookDefinition
- Added coveralls.io support
- Added PHPUnit file whitelisting (for more accurate and faster generated coverage reports)
1.0 (2013-07-14)
- Initial release (blog post)