./TracLinks does not work

[conny@…]

Quoting the manual:

To create a link to a SubWiki-page just use a '/':

 WikiPage/SubWikiPage or ./SubWikiPage

but in "/wiki/mypage" the link:

[wiki:./subpage]

creates a link to

/wiki/subpage

instead of the expected:

/wiki/mypage/subpage

[cboos]

You're right, there seem to be a problem when the explicit wiki: prefix is given.

In the meantime, you can use:

[./subpage]

(["./subpage"] seems to have the same problem than [wiki:./subpage])

[osimons]

Replying to cboos:

You're right, there seem to be a problem when the explicit wiki: prefix is given.

Why should this link syntax actually work? The relative ([./TheSubPage] and [../OtherPage]) and absolute ([/wiki/ThePage]) will generate all sorts of issues if mixed with realms. To me it makes no sense to mix resource/project context-aware links with realm/provider link style.

They are different link styles for different purposes, and should be treated as such.

[cboos]

Thanks for the feedback, it made me think a bit more thoroughly about the issue. I think that this is purely a wiki link resolver issue that can and should be handled in WikiSystem._format_link.

The current problem is more visible with .. links: wiki:"../other"? is not taking you to a sibling page, but to /other (replacing the /wiki part), which is not good and doesn't make sense, as you specified wiki:.... I consider this to be a bug, due to pagename == "../other" in the context of line 326 in _format_link:

 href = formatter.href.wiki(pagename, version=version) ...

This is not blocking 0.11 - would be nice to have but not necessary.

Note that when written from a ticket like here, that link won't make sense anyway - but this is also a situation we can detect in _format_link.

[anonymous]

OK thats goog

[osimons]

#7388 closed as duplicate.

It basically makes a note about the 'Missing Page' link style not being supported by relative and absolute links. I suppose if we arrive at fully supporting such syntax as context-aware, then by definition it should also generate correctly formatted links.