Extension:TopicTags/JS-Common.js

// Get Tag name from query-string var urlParams = new URLSearchParams(window.location.search); var sTag = (urlParams.get('Tag'));

// Get Description // http://scraping.pro/web-scraping-with-javascript-load-html-page/ xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest; xmlhttp.open("GET", "/index.php/Template:TagDescription?action=render&Tag=" + sTag, false); xmlhttp.send; var sDescription = xmlhttp.responseText; // sDescription = $(sDescription).text; // strip HTML, else it gets into storage page

// NOT WORKING, WOULD BE PREFERABLE /* var apix = new mediaWiki.Api; var mwTitle = new mediaWiki.Title( 'Portal:TagDescriptions', 3004); alert (mwTitle.getName); apix.parse(mwTitle,	{section:1}	) .done(function(result,jqXHR)		{alert("done");}		)

// NOT WORKING, BUT PREFERABLE CUZ SIMPLER // https://www.tutorialspoint.com/jquery/ajax-jquery-get.htm /* $.get("/index.php/Template:TagDescription?action=render&Tag=CommonGround",function(html){ var sDescription = $(html); });

// Draw Form var sExtraHTML = ''; $('#txtBox').html(sExtraHTML + sDescription + ' '); $('#btnSave').html(' Save ');

// Handle events // https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Edit#Parameters // https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Topic:S8dvml33u43d2joy&topic_showPostId=s8dvmk8eivd9su01#flow-post-s8dvmk8eivd9su01

$(document).on('click', '#btnSave', function {

// get new description var sNewDescription =  $('#txtBox').html;

// remove extra HTML before comparing sNewDescription = sNewDescription.substring(sExtraHTML.length, sNewDescription.length-6);

// if no change, exit if (String(sNewDescription) == String(sDescription)) { return;}

// if get here, we have new description

// if tag-section not found, add new section to Descriptions page // Get Section ID, to confirm existence xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest; xmlhttp.open("GET", "/index.php/Template:SectionIDUrl?action=render&Page=Portal:TagDescriptions&Section=" + sTag, false); xmlhttp.send; var sSectionID = xmlhttp.responseText; sSectionID = $(sSectionID).text; var iSectionID = parseInt(sSectionID); var bExists = (iSectionID>0);

if (!bExists) { // create new section.

var api = new mediaWiki.Api; api.postWithToken( "edit", {       action: "edit",        title: "Portal:TagDescriptions",        section: "new",        summary: "",        text: sNewDescription,        sectiontitle: sTag    } ).done( function( result, jqXHR ) {        alert( "Saved successfully" );        // remember new description        sDescription = sNewDescription;

} ).fail( function( code, result ) { if ( code === "http" ) { alert( "HTTP error: " + result.textStatus ); // result.xhr contains the jqXHR object } else if ( code === "ok-but-empty" ) { alert( "Got an empty response from the server" ); } else { alert( "API error: " + code ); }   })    }

else {  // edit existing section var api = new mediaWiki.Api; api.postWithToken( "edit",            {                action: "edit",                title: "Portal:TagDescriptions",                section: iSectionID,                text: "== " + sTag + " == \n" + sNewDescription                }            ) .done(function( result, jqXHR )                {                    alert( "Saved successfully" );                    // remember new description                    sDescription = sNewDescription;                    }                ) .fail( function( code, result )                {                if ( code === "http" )                     {                    alert( "HTTP error: " + result.textStatus ); // result.xhr contains the jqXHR object                    }                     else if ( code === "ok-but-empty" )                         {                        alert( "Got an empty response from the server" );                        }                     else                         {                        alert( "API error: " + code );                        }                }            ) } });