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deferred txt A few of the database updates required by various functions here can be deferred until after the result page is displayed to the user For updating the view updating the linked to tables after a etc PHP does not yet have any way to tell the server to actually return and disconnect while still running these but it might have such a feature in the future We handle these by creating a deferred update object and putting those objects on a global list
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This document is intended to provide useful advice for parties seeking to redistribute MediaWiki to end users It s targeted particularly at maintainers for Linux since it s been observed that distribution packages of MediaWiki often break We ve consistently had to recommend that users seeking support use official tarballs instead of their distribution s and this often solves whatever problem the user is having It would be nice if this could such as
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injection txt This is an overview of how MediaWiki makes use of dependency injection The design described here grew from the discussion of RFC T384 The term dependency this means that anything an object needs to operate should be injected from the the object itself should only know narrow no concrete implementation of the logic it relies on The requirement to inject everything typically results in an architecture that based on two main types of and essentially stateless service objects that use other service objects to operate on the value objects As of the beginning MediaWiki is only starting to use the DI approach Much of the code still relies on global state or direct resulting in a highly cyclical dependency which acts as the top level factory for services in MediaWiki which can be used to gain access to default instances of various services MediaWikiServices however also allows new services to be defined and default services to be redefined Services are defined or redefined by providing a callback the instantiator that will return a new instance of the service When it will create an instance of MediaWikiServices and populate it with the services defined in the files listed by thereby bootstrapping the DI framework Per $wgServiceWiringFiles lists includes ServiceWiring php
This document describes the state of Postgres support in and is fairly well maintained The main code is very well while extensions are very hit and miss it is probably the most supported database after MySQL Much of the work in making MediaWiki database agnostic came about through the work of creating Postgres as and are nearing end of but without copying over all the usage comments General notes on the but these can almost always be programmed around *Although Postgres has a true BOOLEAN type
=Architecture==Two class hierarchies are used to provide the functionality associated with the different content models:*Content interface(and AbstractContent base class) define functionality that acts on the concrete content of a page, and *ContentHandler base class provides functionality specific to a content model, but not acting on concrete content.The most important function of ContentHandler is to act as a factory for the appropriate implementation of Content.These Content objects are to be used by MediaWiki everywhere, instead of passing page content around as text.All manipulation and analysis of page content must be done via the appropriate methods of the Content object.For each content model, a subclass of ContentHandler has to be registered with $wgContentHandlers.The ContentHandler object for a given content model can be obtained using ContentHandler::getForModelID($id).Also Title, WikiPage and Revision now have getContentHandler() methods for convenience.ContentHandler objects are singletons that provide functionality specific to the content type, but not directly acting on the content of some page.ContentHandler::makeEmptyContent() and ContentHandler::unserializeContent() can be used to create a Content object of the appropriate type.However, it is recommended to instead use WikiPage::getContent() resp.Revision::getContent() to get a page's content as a Content object.These two methods should be the ONLY way in which page content is accessed.Another important function of ContentHandler objects is to define custom action handlers for a content model, see ContentHandler::getActionOverrides().This is similar to what WikiPage::getActionOverrides() was already doing.==Serialization==With the ContentHandler facility, page content no longer has to be text based.Objects implementing the Content interface are used to represent and handle the content internally.For storage and data exchange, each content model supports at least one serialization format via ContentHandler::serializeContent($content).The list of supported formats for a given content model can be accessed using ContentHandler::getSupportedFormats().Content serialization formats are identified using MIME type like strings.The following formats are built in:*text/x-wiki-wikitext *text/javascript-for js pages *text/css-for css pages *text/plain-for future use, e.g.with plain text messages.*text/html-for future use, e.g.with plain html messages.*application/vnd.php.serialized-for future use with the api and for extensions *application/json-for future use with the api, and for use by extensions *application/xml-for future use with the api, and for use by extensions In PHP, use the corresponding CONTENT_FORMAT_XXX constant.Note that when using the API to access page content, especially action=edit, action=parse and action=query &prop=revisions, the model and format of the content should always be handled explicitly.Without that information, interpretation of the provided content is not reliable.The same applies to XML dumps generated via maintenance/dumpBackup.php or Special:Export.Also note that the API will provide encapsulated, serialized content-so if the API was called with format=json, and contentformat is also json(or rather, application/json), the page content is represented as a string containing an escaped json structure.Extensions that use JSON to serialize some types of page content may provide specialized API modules that allow access to that content in a more natural form.==Compatibility==The ContentHandler facility is introduced in a way that should allow all existing code to keep functioning at least for pages that contain wikitext or other text based content.However, a number of functions and hooks have been deprecated in favor of new versions that are aware of the page's content model, and will now generate warnings when used.Most importantly, the following functions have been deprecated:*Revisions::getText() is deprecated in favor Revisions::getContent()*WikiPage::getText() is deprecated in favor WikiPage::getContent() Also, the old Article::getContent()(which returns text) is superceded by Article::getContentObject().However, both methods should be avoided since they do not provide clean access to the page's actual content.For instance, they may return a system message for non-existing pages.Use WikiPage::getContent() instead.Code that relies on a textual representation of the page content should eventually be rewritten.However, ContentHandler::getContentText() provides a stop-gap that can be used to get text for a page.Its behavior is controlled by $wgContentHandlerTextFallback it
design txt This is a brief overview of the new design More thorough and up to date information is available on the documentation wiki at etc Handles the details of getting and saving to the user table of the and dealing with sessions and cookies OutputPage Encapsulates the entire HTML page that will be sent in response to any server request It is used by calling its functions to add in any and then calling but I prefer the flexibility This should also do the output encoding The system allocates a global one in $wgOut Title Represents the title of an and does all the work of translating among various forms such as plain database etc For and for historical it also represents a few features of articles that don t involve their such as access rights See also title txt Article Encapsulates access to the page table of the database The object represents a an and maintains state such as flags
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