775527 - Kuma: KumaScript - Need a way to get a subpage list

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 810019

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Editing, defect, P1)

Description

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

We need support for building a tree of subpages of a page. We use this to automatically build many landing pages. See http://developer.mindtouch.com/en/docs/DekiScript/Reference/Wiki_Functions_and_Variables/Wiki.Tree for the command we use on MindTouch to do this.

Comment 1

[Les Orchard [:lorchard]]

Off the top of my head: We need support in Kuma to assemble a list of child pages for a page.

There could be some performance concerns to keep in mind, though: Some subpage trees are HUGE - ie. 100's to 1000's of subpages on just one level, to say nothing of what recursive descent would dredge up.

Rather than simply adding subpage lists to env vars or the $json view on pages, I think we'll need a special-purpose JSON view in the wiki just for querying the tree for a given page. Support the depth parameter.

Making it a special-purpose view will help make sure a tree only gets queried and assembled when we really want it. That is, not on every page view.

Comment 2

[Les Orchard [:lorchard]]

(Oh yeah, and when we have this data available as a JSON resource in Kuma, we can then fetch it from KumaScript and wrap that process in a convenience method in an auto-required module.)

Comment 4

[John Karahalis [:openjck]]

Moved out of this release as per our discussions in the planning meeting last week.

Comment 5

[John Karahalis [:openjck]]

Doing a little bug reorganization here. This bug is superseded by bug 810019, which we are working on now.