Question

Following a suggestion from SvenDowideit in my question: HowToUseTWikiFuncGetCgiQuery I have attempted to write a REST handler.

Specifically what I did you can see here: http://bram.van-oosterhout.org/twiki/bin/view/Sandbox/TestTopic1

I got it to work and feel quite pleased with myself. but I had to use undocumented features like:

1. using TWiki::UI::run instead of a TWiki::Func interface
2. using $session->{cgiQuery}; instead of TWiki::Func::getCgiQuery();

Is there a better way?

Separately, I found the rest interface works fine, but the &topic=myTopic parameter in a http invocation creates an odd result. Change &thetopic to &topic in the following url:

http://bram.van-oosterhout.org/twiki402/bin/rest/TestPlugin/example?theweb=myWeb&thetopic=myTopic&method=topic&major=test&minor=test&debug=1

It appears to be taken as a special value. Is that intended?

regards....

Update 20 November

I solved that with:

sub restExample {
   my ($session) = @_;
   $TWiki::Plugins::SESSION = $session;
  ...

That helps, but some calls still don't work. In particular: TWiki::Func::getSkin(); returns pattern, although the skin for the web is set as Rollout.

Clearly there is no way for the code (SESSION??) to know what web I want. The web is defined in a cgi param named theweb. How can I tell getSkin which web I want the skin for. How can I tell getSkin which web I am referring to? Or should I get the SKIN variable myself using getPreferencesValue( $key, $web )?

regards...

Environment

-- BramVanOosterhout - 19 Nov 2006

Answer

If you answer a question - or someone answered one of your questions - please remember to edit the page and set the status to answered. The status selector is below the edit box.

you may well have uncovered a real bug - although last time i made a restHandler, I did not have these issues. The TWiki::Func API should work for you, and certainly used to.

-- SvenDowideit - 21 Nov 2006

Sorry, closing this question after more than 30 days. Feel free to file a bug report...

-- PeterThoeny - 29 Dec 2006