SID-01116: Inserting table content from external text

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	5.0.1	Perl version:
Category:	CategoryEditing	Server OS:	Linux Ubuntu 2.6.35-25	Last update:	14 years ago

Hello All,

I wrote my data analysis program to output results as a Twiki formatted table and this is written to a file. Say table.dat.

Assume that the content of the table.dat is like this:

|           |*Expt 1*|*Expt 2*|*Expt 2*|
|Run1  | 1         | 2           | 3         |
|Run 2 | 2         | 4           | 5        |

I would like to include this table to be included in the Twiki web page automatically. Sure, I could cut and paste it in the wiki editor, but the next time I run the data analysis program, the data has changed and I have to manually edit the Twiki page.

Is there something like %INCLUDE{...}% variable that will read in twiki formatted data from an external source and render it? So I ideally I would have something like

%INCLUDE_TWIKI_CODE{"http://myserver/table.dat"}% on my main TWiki page and it would automatically draw the table if the data changes.

Thanks Karthik

-- KarthikB - 2011-02-23

Discussion and Answer

Name your file table.txt for proper MIME type detection and %INCLUDE{http://example.com/table.txt}%. Disadvantage: Your table data is not version controlled.

Alternative solutions:

• Put your Table.txt file directly into the twiki/data/ directory tree in a web.
  • Advantage: Access the data like any other topic.
  • Disadvantage: No version crontrol; need access to TWiki server file system; be careful not to overwrite existing topics.
• Push content via http using tools like CPAN:LWP::UserAgent, CurlTool Curl or WwwMechanize.
  • Advantage: Content is version controlled.
  • Disadvantage: More time to implement.

Related: VarINCLUDE

-- PeterThoeny - 2011-02-23

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