MediaWiki:Showcase/es6.js

/** * Showcase * * Displays recent threads from a forum board. Used on CPW to display writer's * showcase threads on the fron page. * * This script is designed to be user-configurable. See * User:Underscorre/Showcase for documentation. * * @author User:Underscorre * @license MIT */

// Create the showcase settings object if it doesn't already exist window.showcase = (typeof window.showcase === 'object') ? window.showcase : {};

(function ($, nirvana, mw, window) {   /**     * This class represents a single showcase element.     *     * A showcase can appear an arbitrary number of times on a page, a separate     * class is created for each instance.     *     * @class     */    class Showcase {        /**         * Class constructor.         *         * @param {HTMLElement} target Element to showcase threads within.         * @param {object} settings Settings for the showcase.         */        constructor(target, settings) {            this.api = new mw.Api;            this.target = target;            this.settings = settings;            this.getElementConfig;            this.debug(`Ready to showcase threads from '${this.board}' in this element:`);            this.debug(target);        }

/**        * Gets config details from the element (i.e: Board to showcase, number         * of threads to show). */       getElementConfig { // The board to fetch threads from & number of threads to display // can be configured as attributes of the container element. this.board = this.getAttr('data-board', this.settings.defaultBoard); this.debug(`Running on board '${this.board}'`);

this.maxThreads = Math.min(               this.getAttr('data-max-threads', this.settings.maxThreads),                this.settings.maxThreads            ); this.debug(`Displaying ${this.maxThreads} threads at maximum`); }

/**        * Get an attribute of the target element, or return a default value. *        * @param {string} attribute Attribute name to retrieve. * @param {string} defaultVal Value to return if attribute is not * present. *        * @return {string} Attribute or default alternative. */       getAttr(attribute, defaultVal) { if (this.target.hasAttribute(attribute)) { return this.target.getAttribute(attribute); } else { return defaultVal; }       }

/**        * Print a debug message, if debugging is enabled. *        * @param {string} msg Message to print. */       debug(msg) { if (this.settings.debug) { window.console.log('Showcase:', msg); }       }

/**        * Inform the user of an error. *        * @param {string} msg Error message. */       error(msg) { // Display in the console. window.console.error('Showcase:', msg);

// Display in the container element. let errorMsg = $(' '); // Avoid XSS by setting it as the textContent, not innerHTML. errorMsg.text(msg.toString); errorMsg.appendTo(this.target); }

/**        * Run the showcase. */       run { // Create a list to display the threads we highlight. this.list = $('').appendTo(this.target);

this.debug('Fetching threads...'); // Nirvana is a very interesting & poorly documented API we can use // to interact with a lot of Wikia-specific plugins (e.g: forums) // Essentially, it allows us to call public methods in the // server-side Controller classes of the forum plugin directly. For // example, here, we call the method used to fetch the HTML making // up the forum thread listing (https://bit.ly/2vzoUNG). It's kinda // messy, and just returns raw HTML to sift through, but it's nicer // than just scraping the pages. //           // Why not use the EmbeddedIn API from MediaWiki, and look for // transclusions of the WS template? Doing that starts from the // oldest threads, and would require us to keep making queries to           // get to the latest stuff. Also, this method allows us to include // threads which don't use the WS template. nirvana.getJson('ForumExternalController', 'getCommentsPage', {               pagetitle: this.board,                pagenamespace: 2000            }, data => this.processThreadlist(data),  => this.fetchThreadsFail); }

/**        * Callback for when the threads are fetched successfully. *        * @param {object} data Data from the Nirvana API */       processThreadlist(data) { this.debug('Fetched threads successfully'); // Parse the HTML from the Nirvana API. This would be dangerous // (XSS) on arbitrary input, but because this comes from the Wikia // API & is already sanitised, we assume we can trust it. The HTML // fetched is the same as the inner HTML of any board // (e.g: https://cpw.wikia.com/Board:Writer%27s_Showcase). let outer = $(data.html); let threadList = outer.find('.ThreadList')[0].children;

// The user may want to display less threads than are available, or           // there may be less threads than the user wants, choose whatever's            // lower. let length = Math.min(threadList.length, this.maxThreads);

// Loop through the threads on the board. for (let i = 0; i < length; i++) { // Scrape some data from the HTML linking to the thread. let thread = threadList[i], title = $(thread).find('h4')[0], id = thread.getAttribute('data-id'), link = title.firstChild.getAttribute('href');

this.debug(`Processing thread id ${id}`);

// This API call gets the parsed text from the thread, as well // as the user who made the most recent revision. We need to get // the user in case they're not using the WS template, so we can // guess who wrote the thread. this.api.get({                   action: 'query',                    prop: 'revisions',                    pageids: id,                    rvprop: 'user|content',                    rvlimit: 1,                    rvdir: 'older',                    rvparse: true                }).done(data => this.processThread(title, id, link, data)) .fail( => this.fetchContentFail(id)); }       }

/**        * Callback for when the content of a single thread is fetched * successfully. *        * Retrieves information about the author, description, title from the * thread. *        * @param {HTMLElement} title HTML element of thread title * @param {number} id ID of the thread * @param {string} link URL of the thread * @param {object} data Data from the Nirvana API */       processThread(title, id, link, data) { this.debug(`Successfully fetched thread ${id}`);

data = data.query.pages[parseInt(id)].revisions[0];

// Similar to the threadlist, create an element to store this // thread's HTML & parse it. Once again, this is coming from Wikia & // should already be sanitised let container = $(' ').html(data['*']); // Check if the post contains the WS template. If so, get details // from the template. if (container.find('#cpw-ws-title').length > 0) { this.debug(`Thread ${id} includes template`); this.processThreadTemplate(container, link); } else { this.debug(`Thread ${id} does not include template`); this.processThreadNoTemplate(title, id, link, data); }       }

/**        * Retrieves information about the author, description, title from the * WS template in a thread. *        * Called by processThread if there is a WS template present. *        * @param {HTMLElement} container Div element containing the thread's         * source code */       processThreadTemplate(container, link) { let title = container.find('#cpw-ws-title')[0], titleText = title.innerText;

let author = container.find('#cpw-ws-author')[0], authorText = author.firstChild.lastChild.innerText, authorLink = author.firstChild.lastChild.getAttribute('href');

let desc = container.find('#cpw-ws-description')[0], descText = desc.innerText;

this.drawThread(titleText, link, authorText, authorLink, descText); }

/**        * Retrieves information about the author, description, title by         * scraping details from the thread HTML. *        * Called by processThread if there is no WS template present. *        * @param {HTMLElement} title Title of the thread * @param {number} id ID of the thread * @param {string} link Link to the thread */       processThreadNoTemplate(title, id, link, data) { let titleText = title.innerText, desc = 'The author has not provided a description for this pasta';

let authorText = data.user, authorLink = `/wiki/User:${encodeURIComponent(authorText)}`;

this.drawThread(titleText, link, authorText, authorLink, desc); }

/**        * Writes the thread to the DOM. *        * @param {string} title Title of the thread * @param {string} link Link to the thread * @param {string} author Username of the author * @param {string} authorLink Link to the author's user page * @param {string} desc Description of the pasta */       drawThread(title, link, author, authorLink, desc) { let li = $('');

title = this.snip(title, 50); author = this.snip(author, 50); desc = this.snip(desc, 250); this.debug(`Drawing thread with title '${title}'`);

let pastaTag = this.createLink(link, title); let pastaHeading = $(' ').append(pastaTag);

let authorTag = this.createLink(authorLink, author); let authorHeading = $(' By ').append(authorTag);

let descElement = $(' ').text(desc);

pastaHeading.appendTo(li); authorHeading.appendTo(li); descElement.appendTo(li);

$(li).appendTo(this.list); }

/**        * Truncates a string to a specified length, adding ellipses to signify * that it has been cut off. *        * @param {string} text Text to truncate * @param {number} length Length to cut to        * * @return {string} Truncated string */       snip(text, length) { if (text.length >= (length - 3)) { return text.substr(0, length - 3) + '…'; }           return text; }

/**        * Creates a HTML link element *        * @param {string} href Destination of the link * @param {string} text Text to display *        * @return {jquery} Link tag created with jQuery */       createLink(href, text) { return $('').attr('href', href).text(text); }

/**        * Callback for when fetching threads fails. */       fetchThreadsFail { this.error('Failed to fetch list of threads'); }

/**        * Callback for when fetching content of an individual thread fails. */       fetchContentFail(id) { this.error(`Failed to fetch content of thread ID ${id}`); }

}

let defaultSettings = { // Should Showcase run? enable: true, // Prints extra debugging info if set to true debug: false, // Maximum number of threads to showcase maxThreads: 15, // Default board, if not specified in the container element defaultBoard: 'Writer\'s Showcase', // Class name of element into which forum showcases should be inserted. // Please include the dot at the beginning targetElement: '.forum-showcase' };

// Merge settings let settings = Object.assign({}, defaultSettings, window.showcase);

// If we haven't run yet, let's get this party started. if (!window.showcase.hasOwnProperty('executed') && settings.enable) { window.showcase.executed = true;

// Create a separate Showcase class for each instance of the target div. let targets = $(settings.targetElement); let i = 0; Array.from(targets).forEach(target => {           // Limit to 10 instances per page to avoid abuse, since this makes a            // fair few requests            if (i < 10) {                let showcaseInstance = new Showcase(target, settings);                showcaseInstance.run;            }            i++;        }); }

// ZION loader directive if (window.ZION !== undefined) window.ZION.loaded.fire; } ($, $.nirvana, window.mw, window));