Feature Proposal: Viewing topic text with variables expanded

Motivation

When you debug a variable's behavior or your variable use, it's handy to be able to see a topic's text with variables expanded but before it's rendered into HTML.

Description and Documentation

A new raw parameter value expandvariables is introduced. It's like raw=text, but variables are expanded.

Examples

Impact

Implementation

Taking this an opportunity to provide the raw parameter features explicitly, the "More ..." screen will have the following links.

• https://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/ViewTopicTextWithVariablesExpanded?raw=on - raw view
• https://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/ViewTopicTextWithVariablesExpanded?raw=debug - debug view (raw text including meta data)
• https://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/ViewTopicTextWithVariablesExpanded?raw=expandvariables - raw view with variables expanded (proposed feature)

-- Contributors: HideyoImazu - 2012-07-05

Discussion

If I understand correctly, only variables should be expanded, but not TML into HTML. We already have two debug modes, so how about this:

• https://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/ViewTopicTextWithVariablesExpanded?raw=on - raw view
• https://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/ViewTopicTextWithVariablesExpanded?raw=debug - debug view (raw text including meta data)
• https://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/ViewTopicTextWithVariablesExpanded?raw=expandvariables - raw view with variables expanded (proposed feature)

Relevant links could be shown in the "more" screen

-- PeterThoeny - 2012-07-05

Sounds good. Your suggestions are incorporated into the proposal.

-- HideyoImazu - 2012-07-05

Accepted in JerusalemReleaseMeeting2012x07x20.

-- HideyoImazu - 2012-07-20