{"id":646,"date":"2020-06-04T18:25:08","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T17:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.magnusmanske.de\/?p=646"},"modified":"2020-06-04T18:25:08","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T17:25:08","slug":"the-toolforge-composition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/magnusmanske.de\/wordpress\/archives\/646","title":{"rendered":"The Toolforge Composition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toolforge <\/a>, formerly known as wmflabs<\/em>, is changing its URLs<\/a>. Where there was one host (tools.wmflabs.org<\/em>) before, each tool now gets its own sub-domain (eg mix-n-match.toolforge.org<\/em>).<\/p>\n

Until now, I have used my WiDaR<\/em> tool as a universal OAuth login for many of my tools, so users only have to sign in once. However, since this solution only works within the same sub-domain, it is no longer viable with the new Toolforge URL schema.<\/p>\n

I am scrambling to port my tools that use OAuth to their own sign-in. To make this easier, I put my WiDaR<\/em> tool into a PHP class, that can be reused across tools; the individual tool API can then pick up the requests that were previously sent to WiDar<\/em>. Some tools, like Mix-n-match<\/a>, have already been ported.<\/p>\n

This brought me back to something that has been requested of some of my tools before – portability, namely to MediaWiki\/Wikibase installations other then the Wikimedia ones. A tool with its own WiDaR<\/em> would be much more portable to such installations.<\/p>\n

But the new WiDaR<\/em> class is included via the shared file system of Toolforge; how to get it portable? Just copying it seems like a duplication of effort, and it won’t receive updates etc.<\/p>\n

The solution, in the PHP world, is called composer<\/a>, a package manager for PHP. While I was at it, I ported several of my often-reused PHP “library scripts” to composer, and they are available in code here<\/a>, or as an installable package here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Since the source files for composer slightly differ from the ones I use internally on Toolforge, I wrote a script<\/a> to “translate” my internal scripts into composer-compatible copies.<\/p>\n

The first tool I equipped with this composer-based WiDaR is Tabernacle<\/a>. It should be generic enough to be useful on other Wikibase installations, and is very lightweight (the PHP part just contains a small wrapper API around the WiDaR<\/em> class). Installation instructions are in the repo README.<\/p>\n

I will continue converting tools to the new URL schema, as time allows. I hope I will beat the hard deadline of June 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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