* Actions come in two flavours: the show-a-form-then-do-something-with-the-result (delete, protect, edit, etc) and the just-do-something (watch, rollback, patrol, etc). Create abstract base classes Action and FormlessAction to support these two cases. HTMLForm is an integral part of the form-based structure.
* Look mum, no globals! :D Fully context-based.
* Implement watch/unwatch, credits and delete actions in the new system as proof-of-concept. This also gives the delete frontend a much-needed overhaul.
* Stub out the newly-deprecated functions from Article.php. This already reduces its linecount by about 15%, and there are plenty more actions still to do.
* Centralising actions like this is going to render a lot of hooks type-incompatible. There's simply nowhere you can put the ArticleConfirmDelete hook, for instance, where it can be passed an OutputPage as the second parameter. On the other hand, we can implement new hooks like ActionModifyFormFields and ActionBeforeFormDisplay, which can do much prettier stuff to the forms, like adding extra fields the 'right' way. Update LiquidThreads to use these new hooks where appropriate.
Deprecate old watch/unwatch parameters
Move generic watchlist stuff to ApiBase/getWatchlistValue (maybe needs renaming better?)
Tweak some braces in ApiEditPage
Move token requringness check to the ApiMain
Adding an exception if we're using "gettoken" (block/unblock)
Remove array( 'missingparam', 'token' ), from the getPossibleErrors of modules that set requireToken method to true
"I wouldn't object to stylizing the API code to bring it in line with
the rest of MW on principle, but I'm not gonna bother myself." --Roan
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* Fixed the formal parameter bloat in the file finding functions by making wfFindFile(), RepoGroup::findFile() and FileRepo::findFile() take an associative array of options instead of a rapidly growing collection of formal parameters. Maintained backwards compatibility for the $time parameter, which was the only one used in an extension.
* Took the advice of the todo comment on FileRepo::findFiles() and implemented a calling convention for specifying times (and other options)
* Removed the file object cache from Parser, redundant with the RepoGroup file cache
* Deleted clueless and non-functional LocalRepo::findFiles(). Does not respect redirects, deletion bitfields, or anything else nuanced about FileRepo::findFile(). Does not have the same calling convention as FileRepo::findFiles().
