722673 - Kuma: Scripting - support auto-import of admin-defined variables

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Editing, defect, P2)

Description

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

It would be really useful to be able to have every template/script in Kuma automatically import a set of variables defined using the admin control panel. This would let us, for example, have variables that define the current Gecko release, Aurora, Beta, and Nightly versions, define values used commonly when styling content, and so forth. This would make it much easier to quickly update all our scripts that need this sort of information.

Comment 1

[Les Orchard [:lorchard]]

Hmm, I think there's now a way to do this without involving the admin panel:

kumascript should be configured by default to auto-import the template Template:MDN:Common as a module named "mdn"

That means any constants defined there should be available to templates as something like `mdn.gecko_current_release` Those constants would be editable from the wiki for people with template edit permission, instead of from the admin control panel.

Let's see about trying this out when bug 730705 gets closed

Comment 2

[Florian Scholz (Open Web Docs)]

We are using "globals" in KumaScript the way Les described it comment. MDN:Common is one module that does provide this. Nowadays other "data" macros provide even more centralized information as well.