Re: [PATCH 5/7] remote-mediawiki: support fetching from (Main) namespace

["Antoine Beaupré" <anarcat@debian.org>]

On 2017-11-01 15:56:51, Eric Sunshine wrote:
>> diff --git a/contrib/mw-to-git/git-remote-mediawiki.perl b/contrib/mw-to-git/git-remote-mediawiki.perl
>> @@ -264,9 +264,14 @@ sub get_mw_tracked_categories {
>>  sub get_mw_tracked_namespaces {
>>      my $pages = shift;
>>      foreach my $local_namespace (@tracked_namespaces) {
>> -        my $namespace_id = get_mw_namespace_id($local_namespace);
>> +        my ($namespace_id, $mw_pages);
>> +        if ($local_namespace eq "(Main)") {
>> +            $namespace_id = 0;
>> +        } else {
>> +            $namespace_id = get_mw_namespace_id($local_namespace);
>> +        }
>
> I meant to ask this in the previous round, but with the earlier patch
> mixing several distinct changes into one, I plumb forgot: Would it
> make sense to move this "(Main)" special case into
> get_mw_namespace_id() itself? After all, that function is all about
> determining an ID associated with a name, and "(Main)" is a name.

Right. At first sight, I agree: get_mw_namespace_id should do the right
thing. But then, I look at the code of that function, and it strikes me
as ... well... really hard to actually do this the right way.

In fact, I suspect that passing "" to get_mw_namespace_id would actually
do the right thing. The problem, as I explained before, is that passing
that in the configuration is pretty hard: it would needlessly complicate
the configuration setting, so I think it's a fair shortcut to do it
here.

>>          next if $namespace_id < 0; # virtual namespaces don't support allpages
>> -        my $mw_pages = $mediawiki->list( {
>> +        $mw_pages = $mediawiki->list( {
>
> Why did the "my" of $my_pages get moved up to the top of the foreach
> loop? I can't seem to see any reason for it. Is this an unrelated
> change accidentally included in this patch?

Just a habit of declaring functions at the beginning of a block. Maybe
it's because I'm old? :)

I'll reroll a last patchset with those fixes.

A.

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