#611 WorkingWiki context object

[Lee Worden]

Creating a global (for now) object that records the state of WW processing, getting us away from using a bunch of global variables and static class methods.

[Lee Worden]

Should I build it into MediaWiki's RequestContext object, or keep it separate?

Well, the business of using it without MediaWiki seems to answer that one. Never mind.

[Lee Worden]

Anway, so I'm going to make WW use a global $wwContext, which is an object with member variables $wwContext->wwInterface and $wwContext->wwStorage, and others to come.

I may want to move all the config variables $wwEnableWhatever into that object as well, at some point.

[Lee Worden]

A problem with this is how to call the MW hooks. They are WWInterface class methods currently. I think maybe I'll redo that by putting anonymous functions in the hook data structure instead of names of class methods.

[Lee Worden]

I am doing a replace of WWInterface:: to $wwContext->wwInterface->.

After that, I'll need to

• replace WWStorage by $wwContext->wwStorage->
• put global wwContext; declaration into all functions that need it.
• replace ->$ by -> and make sure the static variables that I'm changing to member variables are set up appropriately.
• write constructors
• change 'public static' functions to just 'public'
• fix all the hooks, including those that are set on-the-fly in various special pages' code, etc.
• There may be a few other places such as function callbacks where e.g. 'WWStorage::' appears in a string. get these right.
• test everything pretty assertively.
• update the documentation that refers to these things (in the Developer Documentation pages).

[Lee Worden]

replace ->$ by -> and make sure the static variables that I'm changing to member variables are set up appropriately.

Occurrences of ->$

WWInterface:

• default_project_name
• cache_file_contents
• dynamic_placeholder_counter
• error_queue
• projects_to_lock
• uniq_tokens
• projects_list_from_db
• projects_to_list
• modified_projects
• projects_in_use
• projects_to_update_archived_project_files

wwStorage:

• currently_parsing_key
• archiving_in_progress
• pagetext_cache
• to_archive
• seq_dir

[Lee Worden]

• replace WWStorage by $wwContext->wwStorage->
• put global wwContext; declaration into all functions that need it.
• replace ->$ by -> and make sure the static variables that I'm changing to member variables are set up appropriately.
• write constructors
• change 'public static' functions to just 'public'
• fix all the hooks, including those that are set on-the-fly in various special pages' code, etc.
• There may be a few other places such as function callbacks where e.g. 'WWStorage::' appears in a string. get these right.

done

• test everything pretty assertively.
• update the documentation that refers to these things (in the Developer Documentation pages).

not done