[Moin-devel] Generate and Modify Pages with python

[Nir Soffer]

> I just install 1.3.3 and find out that pages structure
> is more complicate then before.
> In old days, I can just place text files in directory
> and moinmoin will recognize it just like apache do.
> Now, there is a whole directory of various things.

The structure is not really more complicated, but more structured. The 
old way used to put one page data in multiple directories. For example, 
in the old structure it was almost impossible to remove a page, or to 
get the first revision of a page.

The page structure is quite simple now:

PageName - the directory name is the page name
     edit-log - the page private log of changes
     current - this file contain the name of the current revision, e.g 
00000001. If there is no such revision, the page is considered deleted 
page.
     revisions/ - the directory containing the revisions
         00000001 - the first revision
     attachments - the directory containing the page attachments, if 
there are any attachments
     cache/ - automatically created by the wiki, contain page caches

So you can see that its quite easy to add a page with a shell script:

cd /www/MyWiki/data/pages
mkdir PageName
echo 00000001 > PageName/current
mkdir PageName/revisions
echo "That was quite easy!\n" > PageName/revisions/00000001

Or to remove a page from the system - including all backups, 
attachments:

rm -rf PageName

Or to rename a page:

mv PageName NewName

Try to do that with 1.2 - don't forget to rename all backups, 
attachments and the logs...

Or move a page to another wiki instance:

mv WikiA/data/pages/PageName WikiB/data/pages/

> I try to follow the MoinDev/Storage and try a
> from MoinMoin.Page import Page
> page = Page("NewPage")

The wiki pages are outdated. You will have to read the code if you want 
to write python. Pages and many other functions have a request object 
as first argument. Its little harder now to create pages, but its not 
related to the new structure. The best way is to see how this is done 
in other code.


Best Regards,

Nir Soffer