775461 - Template:domxref is unable to resolve a cross-reference

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Editing, defect)

Description

[Rob Wu [:robwu]]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/13.0.1
Build ID: 20120615233552

Steps to reproduce:

I used the domxref template to create a cross-reference.https://developer-new.mozilla.org/docs/new?slug=undefined/DOM/window.showModalDialog


Actual results:

Upon preview, the link is resolved to:
https://developer-new.mozilla.org/docs/new?slug=undefined/DOM/window.alert

After saving the edit, the URL becomes:
https://developer-new.mozilla.org/docs/new?slug=en-US/DOM/window.alert


Expected results:

In both cases, the expected result is:
https://developer-new.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/DOM/window.alert

Comment 1

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

I'm a little confused. To what DOM term were you trying to create the link? You don't mention that here.

Comment 2

[Rob Wu [:robwu]]

(In reply to Eric Shepherd [:sheppy] from comment #1)
> I'm a little confused. To what DOM term were you trying to create the link?
> You don't mention that here.

I'm referring to the domxref template, see https://developer-new.mozilla.org/en/docs/Template%3Adomxref.

Comment 3

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

Yeah, I understand you're using the domxref template, but what page are you trying to link to, and on which page are you using it? That's not clear from the way you worded the bug report. :)

Comment 4

[Rob Wu [:robwu]]

Sorry, I just noticed that the first link was incorrect. I should have linked to https://developer-new.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/DOM/window.onbeforeunload.

I followed the following steps to produce the problem:

1. Source mode (to manually add templates)
2. I typed `{{domxref("window.alert()")}}`
3. I previewed the edit to observe that the link's target is "/docs/new?slug=undefined/DOM/window.alert".
4. I saved the edit, and see that the link points to "/docs/new?slug=en-US/DOM/window.alert".

Because `/en-US/docs/DOM/window.alert` exists, I expected that the link points to that path.

Comment 5

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

That helped a ton! Turns out there were a couple of bugs in the domxref template. I've fixed those, and all seems well now!

Thanks for this report, I appreciate it!