GenericTagHandler for MediaWiki

Register tags

Tag definition

Implement an instance of MWStake\MediaWiki\Component\GenericTagHandler\ITag interface and register it:

// By global
$GLOBALS['mwsgGenericTagRegistry'] = [
    'class' => 'MyClass',
    'services' => [ '...' ]
];

// By hook
$wgHooks['MWStakeGenericTagHandlerInitTags'][] = function ( &$tags ) {
    $tags[] = new MyTag(...);
};

// By registry
$registry = \MediaWiki\MediaWikiServices::getInstance()->getService( 'MWStake.GenericTagHandler.TagFactory' );
$registry->register( new MyTag( ... ) );

VisualEditor integration (over VisualEditorPlus)

You can return a MWStake\MediaWiki\Component\GenericTagHandler\ClientTagSpecification from your tag implementation to automatically register a tag in VisualEditor.

Without a custom form

Pass null to $formSpecification param to let the default form be used.

With server-side-defined form

Pass a MWStake\MediaWiki\Component\FormEngine\StandaloneFormSpecification object to $formSpecification param to use a custom form.

$formSpec = new StandaloneFormSpecification();
		$formSpec->setItems( [
			[
				'type' => 'text',
				'name' => 'field',
				'label' => 'My field',
			],
			[
				'type' => 'checkbox',
				'name' => 'framed',
				'label' => 'Is framed'
			],
		] );
		

With client-side defined form

You can implement an instance of mw.ext.forms.standalone.Form client-side and use it in the ClientTagSpecification

For that you would pass a MWStake\MediaWiki\Component\FormEngine\FormLoaderSpecification as $formSpecification param.

$formSpec = new FormLoaderSpecification( 'my.form.class', [ 'modules.loading.the.form.class' ] );

Register custom VisualEditor definition classes

In very specific cases you may want to override the default VisualEditor tag definition class

Load a JS file using getResourceLoaderModules method, that will override the tag class

mw.hook( 'ext.visualEditorPlus.tags.getTagDefinition' ).add( ( definitionData, tagDefinition ) =>  {
	if ( definitionData.tagname !== 'myfancytag' ) {
		return;
    }
	
	// definition data contains the info from `ClientTagSpecification`
	
	tagDefinition = new my.class.inheriting.from.ext.visualEditorPlus.ui.tags.Definition( {
        ... data
    } );
};

In this case, you would likely pass null to $formSpecification param in the PHP class.