Manage any topic with attributes

README.md

@@ -60,6 +60,28 @@ foswiki_web name do
 end
 ```
 
+## Topics
+
+The default can create topics and thereby remove their existing history.
+
+### System.SitePreferences
+
+You can configure site preferences with attributes under `['foswiki']['site_preferences']`.
+
+For custom installations you declare a Chef template using `SitePreferences.txt.erb` as source.
+
+### WEB.WebPreferences
+
+Web preferences can be configured under `['foswiki']['web_preferences'][web]`. The `System` web is predefined.
+
+For custom installations you decare Chef templates using `WebPreferences.txt.erb` as source.
+
+### Other topics
+
+You can declare raw topics under `['foswiki']['topics'][topic] = 'content'`. Topic names can use slashes or dots as seperators between webs and topics.
+
+For custom installations just use Chef's file resource.
+
 ## Plugins
 
 Every plugin in the list `['foswiki']['plugins']` will be added to the default wiki installation.

attributes/default.rb

@@ -40,3 +40,6 @@ default['foswiki']['config']['Store']['SearchAlgorithm'] =
 default['foswiki']['config']['TemplateDir'] = '{install}/templates'
 default['foswiki']['config']['ToolsDir'] = '{install}/tools'
 default['foswiki']['config']['WorkingDir'] = '{install}/working'
+
+# Contents of topics
+default['foswiki']['topics'] = {}

metadata.rb

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ maintainer       'HPC'
 maintainer_email 'hpc@gsi.de'
 license          'All rights reserved'
 description      'Installs/Configures Foswiki'
-version          '2.0.6'
+version          '2.1.0'
 depends          'apache2', '< 6.0'
 supports         'debian'
 supports         'ubuntu'

recipes/default.rb

@@ -103,6 +103,20 @@ end
   end
 end
 
+# Manage other topics
+(node['foswiki']['topics'] || {}).each do |topic, tcontent|
+  base = "#{foswiki_dir('data')}/#{topic.gsub(/\./, '/')}"
+  file "#{base}.txt" do
+    content tcontent
+    user node['apache']['user']
+    group node['apache']['group']
+  end
+  directory "#{base},pfv" do
+    recursive true
+    action :delete
+  end
+end
+
 # Install plugins
 (node['foswiki']['plugins'] || []).each do |plugin|
   foswiki_plugin plugin do