swiki links broken in rc3
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Hi,
In RC3, Help->Squeak Swiki brings up a window with a selected number of swiki pages, but the hyperlinked text do not work. If I select "How to contribute to Squeak" and select "Monticello", I get an error: ----- There is no Web browser installed but the URL was copied to the clipboard /squeak/1287 Do you want to view the Web page's source/response any way? ----- If I now select yes, I get an "Error: Unsupported scheme:/squeak/1287" window. The URL is missing the server part. Anyone else see this error? Regards .. Subbu |
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> On 2020-03-01, at 2:23 AM, K K Subbu <[hidden email]> wrote: > > Hi, > > In RC3, Help->Squeak Swiki brings up a window with a selected number of swiki pages, but the hyperlinked text do not work. > > If I select "How to contribute to Squeak" and select "Monticello", I get an error: > ----- > There is no Web browser installed but the URL was copied to the clipboard /squeak/1287 > > Do you want to view the Web page's source/response any way? > ----- > If I now select yes, I get an "Error: Unsupported scheme:/squeak/1287" window. The URL is missing the server part. Anyone else see this error? Yes; same error. And it is very surprising to see a whole load of downloading happening when you first click on 'Help->Squeak Swiki'. And even more surprising what you actually get as a result; a '500 Internal Server Error' seems to be a frequent thing. This type of help page seems to be parsing and (at least partially successfully) rendering the swiki page text, which is nice but a way to cancel the downloading if it is taking too long would be nice. The list view of pages is working (mostly, bar the 500's) to provide the linkage from page to page but the text view isn't - since the text has plain (but incorrect) TextURLs in the runs array we get not so helpful behaviour. The TextURLs seem to be incorrectly built during the download/parse and instead of a plausible schema we get a URL such as '/squeak/2915'. That is what causes the immediate issue Subbu is reporting. Of course, we probably really need to fix the parse to create sometihng more like SwikiHelpLink objects that will work with the help page model to do more appropriate things. tim -- tim Rowledge; [hidden email]; http://www.rowledge.org/tim Strange OpCodes: PS: Pirate Software |
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Hi, there. We should work on a better integration of Swiki in 6.0alpha. ;-) Best, Marcel
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In reply to this post by timrowledge
On 02/03/20 12:37 AM, tim Rowledge wrote:
> And it is very surprising to see a whole load of downloading > happening when you first click on 'Help->Squeak Swiki'. And even more > surprising what you actually get as a result; a '500 Internal Server > Error' seems to be a frequent thing. Is it really necessary to download the entire Squeak swiki given that many of its pages contain content that would no longer be relevant to the current version? This could easily lead to OOM conditions on small machines, if done accidentally. A few relevant content (like Morphic or How to contribute ...) could be pulled into Welcome topic and this entry can be elided from the Help Menu. Regards .. Subbu |
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> Is it really necessary to download the entire Squeak swiki That does not happen. It just downloads what is directly accessible from the root page PLUS level two for those "has children" indications in the tree. It is an interesting "benchmark" of the flexibility of our help system. :-) Best, Marcel
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Re: swiki links broken in rc3
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In reply to this post by K K Subbu
For the short term, I just sent some improvements for SWikiHelp and HtmlHelpTopic to the inbox. For the long term, I wonder whether we could unify our different help/documentation systems in some way? We have:
There is a high risk of duplication and obsoletion.
Maybe we could extend swiki to answer specific requests for the content only. The easiest way could be to define a mime-type "text/html-pure" or something like this, directly in the swiki server image?
Ideally, we could redesign swiki to support a complete REST API which you could use to read and write from within the HelpBrowser :D
Best,
Christoph
Von: Squeak-dev <[hidden email]> im Auftrag von K K Subbu <[hidden email]>
Gesendet: Montag, 2. März 2020 11:09 Uhr An: [hidden email] Betreff: Re: [squeak-dev] swiki links broken in rc3 On 02/03/20 12:37 AM, tim Rowledge wrote:
> And it is very surprising to see a whole load of downloading > happening when you first click on 'Help->Squeak Swiki'. And even more > surprising what you actually get as a result; a '500 Internal Server > Error' seems to be a frequent thing. Is it really necessary to download the entire Squeak swiki given that many of its pages contain content that would no longer be relevant to the current version? This could easily lead to OOM conditions on small machines, if done accidentally. A few relevant content (like Morphic or How to contribute ...) could be pulled into Welcome topic and this entry can be elided from the Help Menu. Regards .. Subbu
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