Item9107: Rationalise attach, oops, and manage

The attach script is a hangover from the days when commands each had their own script. All it does is to generate the attach topic screen.

The manage script is a crude dispatcher that handles various commands related to web management.

The oops script was originally intended to handle error reporting, but has been bastardised to handle functions such as more topic actions

None of these scripts is intended to be linked to directly by users, or even from the view screen; they are all internal functions generated in other internally-generated screens. The proposal is to:

• Replace attach, oops and manage with REST handlers.
• Change the existing attach, oops and manage scripts to invoke these REST handlers, for compatibility (is it worth bothering to do this?)

-- CrawfordCurrie - 06 Jun 2010

Shouldn't this be in development?

I would love to see a clean break, let's see how we could enable some ajax-heavy skins.

-- PaulHarvey - 06 Jun 2010

Yes this need to be a feature proposal. And for 2.0 naturally.

That said - yes less binary scripts to handle is a good goal.

-- KennethLavrsen - 06 Jun 2010

yes, its worth bothering with rearwards compatibility - if only to allow older internal skins to keep working

-- SvenDowideit - 06 Jun 2010

Sure it's for 2.0. However it's not a feature - user should not be affected unless we remove scripts.

Note that the resetpasswd script went this way some time ago.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 06 Jun 2010

Sorry Crawford, I always seem to read more into tasks than is really there.

So I assume this is just a simple re-factoring and not something more ambitious (the likes of which could be done in RestPlugin).

-- PaulHarvey - 07 Jun 2010

A simple refactoring of internals would be step 1. Step 2 would be realigning the user scripts.

Confirmed.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 21 Jun 2010

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