There are two main benefits:
* HTML is no longer printed in the startup debug logs.
* `require()` is no longer called on client-side files. This
eliminates "Failed to load <file> for <plugin>: ReferenceError:
window is not defined" errors when users visit
`/admin/plugins/info`.
Plugin authors are allowed to omit the function name in the `ep.json`
parts definition. For example:
```
{
"parts": [
{
"name": "ep_example",
"hooks": {
"authenticate": "ep_example",
"authFailure": "ep_example"
}
}
]
}
```
If omitted, the function name is assumed to be the same as the hook
name. Before this change, `hook_fn_name` for the example hooks would
both be `/opt/etherpad-lite/node_modules/ep_example`. Now they are
suffixed with `:authenticate` and `:authFailure`. This improves
logging, and it makes it possible to use `hook_fn_name` to uniquely
identify a particular hook function.
With this change, it is no longer necessary to "cd" to the Etherpad base
directory to start it: Etherpad runs from everywhere.
Known issues:
- unless the program is started as before (CWD == base directory) it is still
not possible to install & uninstall plugins via the web interface
--HG--
branch : absolute-paths
This change is only cosmetic. Its aim is do make it easier to understand the
async changes that are going to be merged later on. It was extracted from the
original work from Ray Bellis.
To verify that nothing has changed, you can run the following command on each
file touched by this commit:
npm install uglify-es
diff --unified <(uglify-js --beautify bracketize <BEFORE.js>) <(uglify-js --beautify bracketize <AFTER.js>)
This is a complete script that does the same automatically (works from a
mercurial clone):
```bash
#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -eu
REVISION=<THIS_REVISION>
PARENT_REV=$(hg identify --rev "${REVISION}" --template '{p1rev}')
FILE_LIST=$(hg status --no-status --change ${REVISION})
UGLIFYJS="node_modules/uglify-es/bin/uglifyjs"
for FILE_NAME in ${FILE_LIST[@]}; do
echo "Checking ${FILE_NAME}"
diff --unified \
<("${UGLIFYJS}" --beautify bracketize <(hg cat --rev "${PARENT_REV}" "${FILE_NAME}")) \
<("${UGLIFYJS}" --beautify bracketize <(hg cat --rev "${REVISION}" "${FILE_NAME}"))
done
```
