Re: [Semediawiki-user] custom SMW data type "software version string"

[Sam S. <sm...@gm...>]

Hi again, and thanks for the answers.

Personally, I feel more comfortable implementing the required logic in
PHP rather than using complex MediaWiki parser functions statements.
So I think I'll give the "custom SMW data type" thing a try...

Looking at SMW_DataValue.php and SMW_DV_URI.php, it appears I need to
write a subclass of SMWDataValue that implements at least the
parseUserValue and parseDBkeys functions, plus some simple "get..."
functions (getDBkeys, getSignature, getShortWikiText,
getShortHTMLText, getLongWikiText, getLongHTMLText, getWikiValue),
which altogether doesn't look too difficult.

I have two more questions though:

1) How do I make the custom data type known to SMW, and how do I wrap
up the whole thing as an extension module for SMW?
(I couldn't find any documentation on that, either.)

2) Is the API considered "stable", or are developers of SMW extension
modules expected to implement considerable changes for each new SMW
release?

Regards,
 Sam S.