I intentionally made the constructor parameter optional in the
new RCFeed class from 39a6e3dc4d, however it was not optional
in the subclass, which the older classes are now based on top
of.
Bug: T156996
Change-Id: I05b9e15920bc39f27c402b023d1463cfbdd2efb8
Previously:
* Engines had to be registered in $wgRCEngines.
* The RCFeedEngine classes took no constructor arguments and
were expected to send whatever text is previously formatted
without any information about it. This generic design was
flexible in allowing one to use any formatter with any engine
with minimal configuration and no need for additional classes.
* Each feed configured their destination by setting a 'uri'
option that encodes the name of the engine in PHP as the uri
scheme. Other uri components had to be used for any other
parameters to the engine (host, port, path). While fairly
limited, it was sufficient for the default engines in core.
Changes:
* Allow feed classes to be directly associated with a feed in $wgRCFeeds
via a new 'class' option - without the indirection of 'uri' and
$wgRCEngines. All options are passed to the given class constructor.
This matches the design used elsewhere in MediaWiki. (ObjectCache,
FileRepo, FileBackend, JobQueue, LBFactory, etc.)
This means we no longer enforce a 1:1 mapping of internet protocols
to a specific feed engine, and it allows settings to be passed
without being encoded as a URI neccecarily.
Main use case for this refactor is EventBus (see I7edc4d57fa),
Interestingly, this matches the (then incorrect) documentation
written for $wgRCFeeds in 2961884b43 (which mentions an 'engine'
property that would do the same thing).
* Move the default 'omit' filters and unrestricted 'formatter' handling
to a new FormattedRCFeed class, which remains the default.
* Deprecate RecentChange::getEngine() in favour of RCFeed::factory().
* Document wgRCEngines as "@since 1.22". Follows 2961884b43, ffc71cb6af.
Change-Id: I8be497c623c5d928762e3d3406a388f4d91add9a
