[dokuwiki] Re: Behavior change with the new media file manager?
- From: Junling Ma <junlingm@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:29:15 -0800
Hi Michael,
>> With the new powerful media manager included in Angua, media file management
>> does become easier. However, there is a behavior change with the new
>> manager. In Rincewind and earlier versions, it is possible to use a plugin
>> to intercept the FETCH_MEDIA_STATUS event to handle missing media files. Now
>> this is not possible with the new manager: if a media file is missing, the
>> Wiki now automatically point the link of the missing media file to the
>> manager. Is this the intended behavior from Angua onward? Is there a plan to
>> restore the functionality for plugins to handle missing media files?
>
> The idea with this change was that media files are like pages now and
> have e.g. a history. So if a file does not exist, there might be old
> versions. Or you might want to upload it, creating first the link and
> then adding the file. Furthermore there is no real way to get to the
> history page of deleted media files except these links and the change
> log.
Thanks for the clarification.
> Maybe the solution would be to have different media link types,
> one that always points to the file, one that points to the file when
> it exists, and one that always points to the media manager. The
> default could be the first option in order to not to break existing
> links. As I don't think we should implement a complicated solution now
> between RC and stable, maybe we could just restore the previous
> behavior and add these options after the release?
Is it possible to use the old way of linking, and call the new media manager by
default when FETCH_MEDIA_STATUS returns a non-exist file? This way the plugins
can even implement their own media manager.
> There are also a few more problems - the cache of pages does not
> depend on media files which means that when you add the media files
> later the link also won't be changed till the cache expires. This is
> also why I think we should revert this change and make media links
> static again. I think we should add the used media files to the meta
> data (and also the index for other features) and make the cache of
> pages depend on them after the release.
Junling--
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