From 492f9753aec153d521f28f8c6f2fb3edd9afe921 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Alex A. Naanou" <alex.nanou@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 May 2022 09:04:33 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] started work on path variables...

Signed-off-by: Alex A. Naanou <alex.nanou@gmail.com>
---
 pwiki2.js | 50 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 47 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pwiki2.js b/pwiki2.js
index 6a7302a..d644c73 100755
--- a/pwiki2.js
+++ b/pwiki2.js
@@ -583,8 +583,47 @@ object.Constructor('BasePage', {
 	// root page used to clone new instances via the .clone(..) method...
 	//root: undefined,
 
+	// Path variables...
+	//
+	// XXX should these be here???
+	// 		other places path variables can be resolved:
+	// 			- navigation (below)
+	// 			- macro expansion...
+	// XXX
+	path_vars: {
+		NOW: function(){
+			return Date.now() },
+		PATH: function(){
+			return this.path },
+		NAME: function(){
+			return this.name },
+		DIR: function(){
+			return this.dir },
+		//TITLE: function(){
+		//	return this.title },
+
+		/*/ XXX this needs:
+		// 		- macro context...
+		// 		- sort order...
+		INDEX: function(context){
+			return context.index },
+		//*/
+	},
+
+	resolvePathVars: function(path, context={}){
+		var that = this
+		return Object.entries(this.path_vars)
+			.reduce(function(res, [key, func]){
+				return res
+					.replace(
+						new RegExp('(\\${'+key+'}|\\$'+key+')', 'g'), 
+						func.call(that, context))
+			}, path) },
+
 	// page location...
 	//
+	// NOTE: path variables are resolved relative to the page BEFORE 
+	// 		navigation...
 	__location: undefined,
 	get location(){
 		return this.__location ?? '/' },
@@ -592,9 +631,10 @@ object.Constructor('BasePage', {
 	set location(path){
 		this.referrer = this.location
 		var cur = this.__location = 
-			module.path.relative(
-				this.location, 
-				path)
+			this.resolvePathVars(
+				module.path.relative(
+					this.location, 
+					path))
 		//* XXX HISTORY...
 		if(this.history !== false){
 			this.history.includes(this.__location)
@@ -1631,6 +1671,10 @@ object.Constructor('Page', BasePage, {
 	set text(value){
 		this.store.update(this.location, {text: value}) },
 
+	/*/ XXX
+	get index(){},
+	set index(value){},
+	//*/
 
 })