01545: Pagelist parameters should always be treated as such, even if the value is, or resolves to, null
Description:
In this pagelist directive (from a SideBar)
(:pagelist name=A* fmt=Songbook.SideBar#listbyletter category={*$:genre} :)
the parameter category= morphs into a search string if the page text variable {*$:genre} is not defined on a page body.
I consider this to be a bug.
It seems to me that if a user desires a search string of "category=" they should quote it.
If it looks like a parameter (i.e. /text=/) it should be treated like a parameter.
This is important because when constructing a pagelist where a value of a parameter resolves to null the meaning of the pagelist unexpectedly changes.
The current prototype can be downloaded from ChangeLog or Subversion. Petko
Nobody replied here or to the thread so I went and added it without a switch. Unquoted empty arguments will always be ignored. Petko
See test:
- PagelistWithCategoryParameter Test Pagelist with category passed as a parameter