Extension:BetaFeatures

BetaFeatures 확장은 다른 미디어위키 확장에게 그 위키에서 사용자 환경 설정의 목록에 베타 기능을 등록하도록 허용합니다. 그것은 기존 사용자 환경 설정 아키텍처와 몇 가지 특수 페이지를 기능을 수행하기 위해 사용합니다.

Installation

미디어위키 확장 내려받기 지면에서 해당하는 버전을 다운로드하고 위키의 extensions 디렉토리에 BetaFeatures에 푸십시오.

또는 개발자와 코드 기여자는 대신 다음을 사용하여 Git에서 확장 프로그램을 설치해야 합니다.

cd extensions/
git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/BetaFeatures

미디어위키 설정 LocalSettings.php에 다음을 추가하십시오:

wfLoadExtension( 'BetaFeatures' );

이 확장에 필요한 필수 데이터베이스 테이블을 자동으로 생성하는 업데이트 스크립트를 실행하십시오:

cd /var/www/html/w
php maintenance/run.php ./maintenance/update.php

필요하다면, 설정하십시오.

Special:Version에 접근해서 확장이 정상적으로 설치가 되었는지 확인하십시오.

Using the new hooks in your extension

Using this extension to support your beta feature is easy. Register a hook of type GetBetaFeaturePreferences in your extension.json file — the syntax is almost identical to the GetPreferences hook, with small changes to support the type of preference we need in this case.

In extension.json:

    "Hooks": {
        "GetBetaFeaturePreferences": "MediaWiki\\Extension\\MyExtension\\Hooks::onGetBetaFeaturePreferences"
    },

In MyExtension/includes/Hooks.php:

namespace MediaWiki\Extension\MyExtension;
class Hooks {
    public static function onGetBetaFeaturePreferences( User $user, array &$betaPrefs ) {
        $extensionAssetsPath = MediaWikiServices::getInstance()
			->getMainConfig()
			->get( 'ExtensionAssetsPath' );
        $betaPrefs['myextension-awesome-feature'] = [
            // The first two are message keys
            'label-message' => 'myextension-awesome-feature-message',
            'desc-message' => 'myextension-awesome-feature-description',
            // Paths to images that represents the feature.
            // The image is usually different for ltr and rtl languages.
            // Images for specific languages can also specified using the language code.
            'screenshot' => array(
                'ru' => "$extensionAssetsPath/MyExtension/images/screenshot-ru.png",
                'ltr' => "$extensionAssetsPath/MyExtension/images/screenshot-ltr.png",
                'rtl' => "$extensionAssetsPath/MyExtension/images/screenshot-rtl.png",
            ),
            // Link to information on the feature - use subpages on mw.org, maybe?
            'info-link' => 'https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:MyExtension/MyFeature',
            // Link to discussion about the feature - talk pages might work
            'discussion-link' => 'https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help_talk:Extension:MyExtension/MyFeature',
        ];
    }
}

<span class="citation wikicite" id="endnote_For now, 'label-message', 'desc-message', 'info-link', and 'discussion-link' are required. Please be sure you use all of them!">[[#ref_For now, 'label-message', 'desc-message', 'info-link', and 'discussion-link' are required. Please be sure you use all of them!|^]]

Then, you can use the convenience function provided by BetaFeatures to check whether the feature is enabled.

// SpecialMyExtension.php
class SpecialMyExtension extends SpecialPage {

    public function execute() {
        if ( BetaFeatures::isFeatureEnabled( $this->getUser(), 'my-awesome-feature' ) ) {
            // Implement the feature!
        }
    }
}

You can also use a normal preference check, but don't check against truthy or falsy values - use the values from the HTMLFeatureField class.

// SpecialMyExtension.php
class SpecialMyExtension extends SpecialPage {

    public function execute() {
        if ( $this->getUser()->getOption( 'my-awesome-feature' ) === HTMLFeatureField::OPTION_ENABLED ) {
            // Implement the feature!
        }
    }
}

Because the BetaFeatures class should be present everywhere, you could use the convenience function in any hook, special page, or anything else you wanted. Just be aware of potential performance or caching issues you may introduce with those changes.

If you want to also use your extension without BetaFeatures, you should also check for its existence, e.g.:

if (
    !ExtensionRegistry::getInstance()->isLoaded( 'BetaFeatures' )
    || \BetaFeatures::isFeatureEnabled( $user, 'my-awesome-feature' )
) {
    // Implement the feature!
}

Configuration

The $wgBetaFeaturesWhitelist config variable can be used to limit which beta features are shown in preferences. By default it is empty, and all beta features are shown.

If it is used then in order for a beta feature to show up in the preferences it needs to be listed in the whitelist. This config variable accepts an array of strings. Each string should be the name of a beta feature as specified in the preference definition passed to onGetBetaFeaturePreferences(). For example, in the code given above, the name of the beta feature is myextension-awesome-feature, so you would need to add that string to the $wgBetaFeaturesWhitelist array in your wiki's configuration:

$wgBetaFeaturesWhitelist = [
        'myextension-awesome-feature' 
];

Advanced usage

Want to see something really cool?

Auto-enroll groups

With this example, we register a preference that's an "auto-enroll" one - if a user checks this, and new features come out that are in a particular group, the user will be automatically enrolled in those features.

// MyExtensionHooks.php
class MyExtensionHooks {

    static function getPreferences( $user, &$prefs ) {
        global $wgExtensionAssetsPath;

        $prefs['my-awesome-feature-auto-enroll'] = array(
            // The first two are message keys
            'label-message' => 'beta-feature-autoenroll-message',
            'desc-message' => 'beta-feature-autoenroll-description',
            // Link to information on the feature - use subpages on mw.org, maybe?
            'info-link' => 'https://wwww.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/MyFeature',
            // Link to discussion about the feature - talk pages might work
            'discussion-link' => 'https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:MyFeature',
            // Enable auto-enroll for this group
            'auto-enrollment' => 'my-awesome-feature-group',
        );

        $prefs['my-awesome-feature'] = array(
            // The first two are message keys
            'label-message' => 'beta-feature-message',
            'desc-message' => 'beta-feature-description',
            // Paths to images that represents the feature.
            // The image is usually different for ltr and rtl languages.
            // Images for specific languages can also specified using the language code.
            'screenshot' => array(
                'ru' => "$wgExtensionAssetsPath/MyExtension/images/screenshot-ru.png",
                'ltr' => "$wgExtensionAssetsPath/MyExtension/images/screenshot-ltr.png",
                'rtl' => "$wgExtensionAssetsPath/MyExtension/images/screenshot-rtl.png",
            ),
            // Link to information on the feature - use subpages on mw.org, maybe?
            'info-link' => 'https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:MyExtension/SomeFeature',
            // Link to discussion about the feature - talk pages might work
            'discussion-link' => 'https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:MyExtension/SomeFeature',
            // Add feature to this group
            'group' => 'my-awesome-feature-group',
        );
    }
}

Dependency management

Next up, we can actually define dependency management per-feature. To do this we first register the name of a hook that we want to use for this with the hook "GetBetaFeatureDependencyHooks ", then we register a hook of that type that checks some dependency, and returns true if it's met or false if not.

// MyExtension.php
$wgAutoloadClasses['MyExtensionHooks'] = __DIR__ . '/MyExtensionHooks.php';
Hooks::register( 'GetBetaFeaturePreferences', 'MyExtensionHooks::getPreferences' );
Hooks::register( 'GetBetaFeatureDependencyHooks', 'MyExtensionHooks::getDependencyCallbacks' );
Hooks::register( 'CheckDependenciesForMyExtensionFeature', 'MyExtensionHooks::checkDependencies' );

// MyExtensionHooks.php
class MyExtensionHooks {

    static function getPreferences( $user, &$prefs ) {
        global $wgExtensionAssetsPath;

        $prefs['my-awesome-feature'] = array(
            // The first two are message keys
            'label-message' => 'beta-feature-message',
            'desc-message' => 'beta-feature-description',
            // Paths to images that represents the feature.
            // The image is usually different for ltr and rtl languages.
            // Images for specific languages can also specified using the language code.
            'screenshot' => array(
                'ru' => "$wgExtensionAssetsPath/MyExtension/images/screenshot-ru.png",
                'ltr' => "$wgExtensionAssetsPath/MyExtension/images/screenshot-ltr.png",
                'rtl' => "$wgExtensionAssetsPath/MyExtension/images/screenshot-rtl.png",
            ),
            // Link to information on the feature - use subpages on mw.org, maybe?
            'info-link' => 'https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:MyExtension/SomeFeature',
            // Link to discussion about the feature - talk pages might work
            'discussion-link' => 'https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:MyExtension/SomeFeature',
            // Mark as dependent on something
            'dependent' => true,
        );
    }

    static function getDependencyCallbacks( &$depHooks ) {
        $depHooks['my-awesome-feature'] = 'CheckDependenciesForMyExtensionFeature';
        return true;
    }

    static function checkDependencies() {
        $dependenciesMet = false;
        // Do some fancy checking and return the result
        return $dependenciesMet;
    }
}

You can ~~abuse~~ use this feature to do per-wiki disabling of features, if they're marked as dependent. But that sounds really hacky. You probably shouldn't. I can hear you thinking about it right now, just stop it.

Database stuff

There's a database table (betafeatures_user_counts) defined, and used, by BetaFeatures. But you might get confused by it if you try to use it locally.

We use the job queue to run updates for this table, when the cache expires (30 minutes TTL). If your wiki is configured to run jobs on each request, this will make about one request every 30 minutes reeeeeeally slow, but the rest will be relatively fast. If you configure your wiki to run jobs via cron, things will work much better.

Troubleshootings

Usage counts

The usage counts might not reflect exactly the number of users having some beta features activated at this precise moment. These should be interpreted as approximate numbers.

This number is computed by a job, which could be delayed or long-running. In the past, there was also a 30-minutes cache on these figures.