715253 - templates/scripting: define architecture

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

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Description

[Luke Crouch [:groovecoder]]

Sheppy: describe the data requirements for the templates

Then we'll design the overall architecture of the template/scripting system.

Comment 1

[Luke Crouch [:groovecoder]]

Sheppy, can you make a list here of the wiki resources that the scripts need to access? E.g.,

* Documents/Pages (read, update)
* Authors (read)
* Revision
* etc.

Then we'll draw a diagram of the system architecture.

Comment 3

[Les Orchard [:lorchard]]

A look at the template usage count will help, here. I've got some ideas about how to build a server-side JS template service, but want to make sure it supports the kinds of data access our current templates need at a minimum. 

Whether or not it will require rewriting DekiScript by hand or support some kind of recompile/emulation will be an advanced goal. It'll also depend on how complex our existing templates are, or whether the bulk of them are simple code

Comment 4

[Les Orchard [:lorchard]]

Don't have a diagram yet, but starting to do a brain dump here:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/MDN/Kuma/Scripting

Comment 5

[Les Orchard [:lorchard]]

There's a diagram now. Going to call this one resolved as a first draft, file follow-up for additional work.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/MDN/Kuma/Scripting#Proposed_solution_.231