MediaWiki Filesystem

THIS PROJECT IS ABANDONED

I instead recommend Git's extension for MediaWiki remotes (https://github.com/Git-Mediawiki/Git-Mediawiki), which is also included in the upstream git repo.

Here are three separate attempts to mount a MediaWiki page as a filesystem under fuse. (https://datorhandbok.lysator.liu.se to be exact).

Versions

All three versions work, but with the following problems:

C++

Fuse works great, but fetching and decoding data is clumsy in C++ to say the least.

Python

The fuse library i tried to use required python that all callbacks returned python strings instead of byte-vectors. It then took the length of the string (?) instead of the length in bytes, breaking just about everything.

(Chicken) Scheme

The most working version. Sensible fuse bindings, C-style strings. Downloading and parsing of XML works wonders. However...

XML & Json

MediaWiki has for some reason deprecated the XML api, and wants everyone to use their json api. This would be fine, except that the actual wiki-page is still presented as XML. The XML is also far from satisfactory. Instead of nesting the document through namespaces the inner is HTML-encoded (< for every <).

Design problems

This prototype work, and getting a fully featured read-only version wouldn't be to far away. One big problem is however that MediaWiki isn't inherently hierarchical, making the mapping to a filesystem a bit harder. These current versions make some attempt to fetch indices, but mostly fall back to showing those pages it knows exists, from the user explicitly opening a (as of then) non-existant file.