Introduces wfLoadExtension()/wfLoadSkin() which should be used in
LocalSettings.php rather than require-ing a PHP entry point.
Extensions and skins would add "extension.json" or "skin.json" files
in their root, which contains all the information typically
present in PHP entry point files (classes to autoload, special pages,
API modules, etc.) A full schema can be found at
docs/extension.schema.json, and a script to validate these to the
schema is provided. An additional script is provided to convert
typical PHP entry point files into their JSON equivalents.
The basic flow of loading an extension goes like:
* Get the ExtensionRegistry singleton instance
* ExtensionRegistry takes a filename, reads the file or tries
to get the parsed JSON from APC if possible.
* The JSON is run through a Processor instance,
which registers things with the appropriate
global settings.
* The output of the processor is cached in APC if possible.
* The extension/skin is marked as loaded in the
ExtensionRegistry and a callback function is executed
if one was specified.
For ideal performance, a batch loading method is also provided:
* The absolute path name to the JSON file is queued
in the ExtensionRegistry instance.
* When loadFromQueue() is called, it constructs a hash
unique to the members of the current queue, and sees
if the queue has been cached in APC. If not, it processes
each file individually, and combines the result of each
Processor into one giant array, which is cached in APC.
* The giant array then sets various global settings,
defines constants, and calls callbacks.
To invalidate the cached processed info, by default the mtime
of each JSON file is checked. However that can be slow if you
have a large number of extensions, so you can set $wgExtensionInfoMTime
to the mtime of one file, and `touch` it whenever you update
your extensions.
Change-Id: I7074b65d07c5c7d4e3f1fb0755d74a0b07ed4596
