Trac macros are plugins to extend the Trac engine with custom 'functions' written in Python. A macro inserts dynamic HTML data in any context supporting WikiFormatting.
Another kind of macros are WikiProcessors. They typically deal with alternate markup formats and representation of larger blocks of information (like source code highlighting).
Macro calls are enclosed in two square brackets. Like Python functions, macros can also have arguments, a comma separated list within parentheses.
Trac macros can also be written as TracPlugins. This gives them some capabilities that macros do not have, such as being able to directly access the HTTP request.
A list of 3 most recently changed wiki pages starting with 'Trac':
[[RecentChanges(Trac,3)]]
Display:
05/22/09
Note that the following list will only contain the macro documentation if you've not enabled -OO optimizations, or not set the PythonOptimize option for mod_python.
[[BackLinksMenu]]
Backlinks
Note that the name of the class is meaningful:
The documentation of the class (i.e. what you're reading) will become the documentation of the macro, as shown by the MacroList macro (usually used in the WikiMacros page).
[[Image]]
Embed an image in wiki-formatted text.
The first argument is the file specification. The file specification may reference attachments in three ways:
Also, the file specification may refer to repository files, using the source:file syntax (source:file@rev works also).
Files can also be accessed with a direct URLs; /file for a project-relative, //file for a server-relative, or http://server/file for absolute location of the file.
The remaining arguments are optional and allow configuring the attributes and style of the rendered <img> element:
Examples:
[[Image(photo.jpg)]] # simplest [[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]] # with image width size [[Image(photo.jpg, right)]] # aligned by keyword [[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]] # without link to source [[Image(photo.jpg, align=right)]] # aligned by attribute
You can use image from other page, other ticket or other module.
[[Image(OtherPage:foo.bmp)]] # if current module is wiki [[Image(base/sub:bar.bmp)]] # from hierarchical wiki page [[Image(#3:baz.bmp)]] # if in a ticket, point to #3 [[Image(ticket:36:boo.jpg)]] [[Image(source:/images/bee.jpg)]] # straight from the repository! [[Image(htdocs:foo/bar.png)]] # image file in project htdocs dir.
Adapted from the Image.py macro created by Shun-ichi Goto <gotoh@…>
[[InterTrac]]
Provide a list of known InterTrac prefixes.
[[InterWiki]]
Provide a description list for the known InterWiki prefixes.
[[KnownMimeTypes]]
List all known mime-types which can be used as WikiProcessors.
Can be given an optional argument which is interpreted as mime-type filter.
[[MacroList]]
Display a list of all installed Wiki macros, including documentation if available.
Optionally, the name of a specific macro can be provided as an argument. In that case, only the documentation for that macro will be rendered.
Note that this macro will not be able to display the documentation of macros if the PythonOptimize option is enabled for mod_python!
[[PageOutline]]
Display a structural outline of the current wiki page, each item in the outline being a link to the corresponding heading.
This macro accepts three optional parameters:
[[RecentChanges]]
List all pages that have recently been modified, grouping them by the day they were last modified.
This macro accepts two parameters. The first is a prefix string: if provided, only pages with names that start with the prefix are included in the resulting list. If this parameter is omitted, all pages are listed.
The second parameter is a number for limiting the number of pages returned. For example, specifying a limit of 5 will result in only the five most recently changed pages to be included in the list.
[[RepositoryIndex]]
Display the list of available repositories.
Can be given the following named arguments:
(since 0.12)
[[TicketQuery]]
Wiki macro listing tickets that match certain criteria.
This macro accepts a comma-separated list of keyed parameters, in the form "key=value".
If the key is the name of a field, the value must use the syntax of a filter specifier as defined in TracQuery#QueryLanguage. Note that this is not the same as the simplified URL syntax used for query: links starting with a ? character. Commas (,) can be included in field values by escaping them with a backslash (\).
Groups of field constraints to be OR-ed together can be separated by a litteral or argument.
In addition to filters, several other named parameters can be used to control how the results are presented. All of them are optional.
The format parameter determines how the list of tickets is presented:
The max parameter can be used to limit the number of tickets shown (defaults to 0, i.e. no maximum).
The order parameter sets the field used for ordering tickets (defaults to id).
The desc parameter indicates whether the order of the tickets should be reversed (defaults to false).
The group parameter sets the field used for grouping tickets (defaults to not being set).
The groupdesc parameter indicates whether the natural display order of the groups should be reversed (defaults to false).
The verbose parameter can be set to a true value in order to get the description for the listed tickets. For table format only. deprecated in favor of the rows parameter
The rows parameter can be used to specify which field(s) should be viewed as a row, e.g. rows=description|summary
For compatibility with Trac 0.10, if there's a last positional parameter given to the macro, it will be used to specify the format. Also, using "&" as a field separator still works (except for order) but is deprecated.
[[TitleIndex]]
Insert an alphabetic list of all wiki pages into the output.
Accepts a prefix string as parameter: if provided, only pages with names that start with the prefix are included in the resulting list. If this parameter is omitted, all pages are listed. If the prefix is specified, a second argument of value 'hideprefix' can be given as well, in order to remove that prefix from the output.
Alternate format and depth named parameters can be specified:
[[TracAdminHelp]]
Display help for trac-admin commands.
Examples:
[[TracAdminHelp]] # all commands [[TracAdminHelp(wiki)]] # all wiki commands [[TracAdminHelp(wiki export)]] # the "wiki export" command [[TracAdminHelp(upgrade)]] # the upgrade command
[[TracGuideToc]]
Display a table of content for the Trac guide.
This macro shows a quick and dirty way to make a table-of-contents for the Help/Guide. The table of contents will contain the Trac* and WikiFormatting pages, and can't be customized. Search for TocMacro for a a more customizable table of contents.
[[TracIni]]
Produce documentation for the Trac configuration file.
Typically, this will be used in the TracIni page. Optional arguments are a configuration section filter, and a configuration option name filter: only the configuration options whose section and name start with the filters are output.
The Trac Hacks site provides a wide collection of macros and other Trac plugins contributed by the Trac community. If you're looking for new macros, or have written one that you'd like to share with the world, please don't hesitate to visit that site.
Macros, like Trac itself, are written in the Python programming language.
For more information about developing macros, see the development resources? on the main project site.
Here are 2 simple examples on how to create a Macro with Trac 0.11? have a look at source:trunk/sample-plugins/Timestamp.py for an example that shows the difference between old style and new style macros and also source:trunk/wiki-macros/README which provides a little more insight about the transition.
It should be saved as TimeStamp.py as Trac will use the module name as the Macro name
from datetime import datetime # Note: since Trac 0.11, datetime objects are used internally from genshi.builder import tag from trac.util.datefmt import format_datetime, utc from trac.wiki.macros import WikiMacroBase class TimestampMacro(WikiMacroBase): """Inserts the current time (in seconds) into the wiki page.""" revision = "$Rev$" url = "$URL$" def expand_macro(self, formatter, name, args): t = datetime.now(utc) return tag.b(format_datetime(t, '%c'))
It should be saved as HelloWorld.py (in the plugins/ directory) as Trac will use the module name as the Macro name
from trac.wiki.macros import WikiMacroBase class HelloWorldMacro(WikiMacroBase): """Simple HelloWorld macro. Note that the name of the class is meaningful: - it must end with "Macro" - what comes before "Macro" ends up being the macro name The documentation of the class (i.e. what you're reading) will become the documentation of the macro, as shown by the !MacroList macro (usually used in the WikiMacros page). """ revision = "$Rev$" url = "$URL$" def expand_macro(self, formatter, name, args): """Return some output that will be displayed in the Wiki content. `name` is the actual name of the macro (no surprise, here it'll be `'HelloWorld'`), `args` is the text enclosed in parenthesis at the call of the macro. Note that if there are ''no'' parenthesis (like in, e.g. [[HelloWorld]]), then `args` is `None`. """ return 'Hello World, args = ' + unicode(args) # Note that there's no need to HTML escape the returned data, # as the template engine (Genshi) will do it for us.
expand_macro should return either a simple Python string which will be interpreted as HTML, or preferably a Markup object (use from trac.util.html import Markup). Markup(string) just annotates the string so the renderer will render the HTML string as-is with no escaping. You will also need to import Formatter using from trac.wiki import Formatter.
If your macro creates wiki markup instead of HTML, you can convert it to HTML like this:
text = "whatever wiki markup you want, even containing other macros" # Convert Wiki markup to HTML, new style out = StringIO() Formatter(self.env, formatter.context).format(text, out) return Markup(out.getvalue())