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authorTrygve Aaberge <trygveaa@gmail.com>2022-10-22 15:27:06 +0200
committerSébastien Helleu <flashcode@flashtux.org>2022-12-11 15:13:31 +0100
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downloadweechat-ebc63d1b8303a479c9ed347c1152448984fffa67.zip
scripts: Send null values to config section callbacks
The callback_read and callback_create_option functions in the scripting APIs always get the value as a string, never as null. This means that if the value is null, there is no way for the script to distinguish this from an empty string for string options. This makes it impossible to properly make options with fallback values, like the irc server and server_default options, as far as I can see. All the scripting languages except Tcl use that language's equivalent for null. For JavaScript which has both null and undefined, null is used. For Tcl, the magic null string defined in commit 197a7a01e is used and the documentation is updated to describe that. I tested this with these scripts: https://gist.github.com/trygveaa/2d49c609addf9773d2ed16e15d1e3447 You can load all of those scripts and see the result with this command (assuming you have the scripts in the current directory): weechat -t -r "/filter add script * * script; /script load $(echo script_config.*)"
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@@ -201,11 +201,22 @@ Funktionen werden aufgerufen mittels `+weechat.xxx(arg1, arg2, ...)+`.
Funktionen werden aufgerufen mittels `+weechat::xxx arg1 arg2 ...+`.
-Da Tcl nur String-Typen hat, gibt es keinen Null-Typ, der als Argument übergeben werden kann
-wenn eine Funktion Nullwerte akzeptiert. Um dies zu überwinden, können Sie die Konstante
-`$::weechat::WEECHAT_NULL` verwenden, das als Nullwert fungiert. Diese Konstante ist definiert
-als `\uFFFF\uFFFF\uFFFFWEECHAT_NULL\uFFFF\uFFFF\uFFFF`, es ist somit sehr unwahrscheinlich
-das es ungewollt verwendet wird.
+// TRANSLATION MISSING
+[[tcl_null]]
+===== Null values
+
+Since Tcl only has string types, there's no null type to pass as an argument
+when a function accepts null values or to get as an argument in a callback
+function. To overcome this the WeeChat API defines the constant
+`$::weechat::WEECHAT_NULL` which acts as a null value. This constant is defined
+as `\uFFFF\uFFFF\uFFFFWEECHAT_NULL\uFFFF\uFFFF\uFFFF`, so it's very unlikely to
+appear unintentionally.
+
+You can pass this constant when a function accepts null as an argument and you
+will get it as the value of an argument in a callback function if the argument
+value is null. To see which functions accept null values and passes null values
+to callbacks, look at the Python prototypes in the
+link:weechat_plugin_api.en.html[WeeChat plugin API reference ^↗^,window=_blank].
[[language_guile]]
==== Guile (Scheme)