SID-01492: Calling TWiki::Func functions from outside of TWiki

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	5.1.1	Perl version:	Perl 5.10.1 from OpenCSW
Category:	CategoryAPI	Server OS:	Oracle Solaris 10, 8/11 u10	Last update:	13 years ago

Hi,

Is there any way I can call functions in the TWikiFuncDotPm class from an external script? In particular, some seem to require a session variable (ie. TWiki::Func::getTopicList), and I can't see how to call that function from a script that's run outside of TWiki, ie. via cron job on the server.

Thanks!

- John

-- JohnIRoberts - 2012-06-25

Discussion and Answer

You need to initialize the command line script properly. Study twiki/bin/statistics which runs in CLI (command line interface) and CGI mode. The action of the script is done by module TWiki/UI/Statistics.pm.

There is one detail you need to take care of: You need to tie the script to the module. In the statistics case it is defined in TWiki/UI.pm:

    $TWiki::cfg{SwitchBoard}{statistics} =
      [ 'TWiki::UI::Statistics', 'statistics',    { statistics  => 1 } ];

For your own script you can define this in your own script before you call $TWiki::engine->run();

-- PeterThoeny - 2012-06-26

Ah excellent, I've got it working now. Thank you very much!

-- JohnIRoberts - 2012-06-26

Good. Please consider contributing code back to the community. You could package this as an add-on, see AddOnPackageHowTo.

-- PeterThoeny - 2012-06-26

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