Re: [PATCH 3/4] remote-mediawiki: show known namespace choices on failure

From: Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org>
Date: Oct 29, 2017, 18:31 UTC
Message-ID: <877evd9561.fsf@curie.anarc.at>
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cSkwD35wK7Z_qZZusKWWBC5CU6AnbF9g_g907uqpeYQsw@mail.gmail.com>

On 2017-10-29 13:34:31, Eric Sunshine wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 12:08 PM, Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org> wrote:
>> if we fail to find a requested namespace, we should tell the user
>
> s/if/If/

fixed.

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>> which ones we know about, since we already do. this allows users to
>
> s/this/This/
>
> Not sure what ", since we already do" means here.

we already have fetched the mapping, fixed.

>> feetch all namespaces by specifying a dummy namespace, failing, then
>
> s/feetch/fetch/

fixed.

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>> copying the list of namespaces in the config.
>>
>> eventually, we should have a flag that allows fetching all namespaces
>> automatically.
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org>
>> ---
>> diff --git a/contrib/mw-to-git/git-remote-mediawiki.perl b/contrib/mw-to-git/git-remote-mediawiki.perl
>> @@ -1334,7 +1334,9 @@ sub get_mw_namespace_id {
>>         my $id;
>>
>>         if (!defined $ns) {
>> -               print {*STDERR} "No such namespace ${name} on MediaWiki.\n";
>> +               my @namespaces = sort keys %namespace_id;
>> +               for (@namespaces) { s/ /_/g; }
>> +               print {*STDERR} "No such namespace ${name} on MediaWiki, known namespaces: @namespaces.\n";
>
> Probably want to drop the terminating "." in the error message.

meh... i just respected what was already there, but it's true it can be error-prone when copy-pasting, so removed.

a.

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