mobile-html: allow clients to adjust tables
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	• NHarateh_WMF
	Mar 11 2019, 5:22 PM

Description

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On iOS, users can define whether they want article tables to be collapsed or expanded by default. This means that we need to be able to communicate that preference to the html.
~~We also need to be able to pass our localized strings for table titles.~~ (T205550)

Proposed solution
Provide a JS function that allows clients to adjust tables.
For example (once T205550 is completed):

wmf.adjustTables = (collapse, locale) => {
    // adjust tables
    if (callback) {
        callback();
    };
};

Questions
Currently, on iOS, when the user taps on a collapsed table's footer, we scroll them back to the top of that table. Is this behavior going to move up to page library or are we expected to continue handling it ourselves?

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Status	Assigned	Task
Resolved	None	T169242 Develop Page Content Service for Reading Clients
Resolved	None	T177425 Develop General Layer of PCS
Resolved	None	T177433 Develop HTML Content API to be used with companion structured JSON APIs
Resolved	• Jhernandez	T222369 mobile-html: JavaScript abstraction layer
Declined	None	T218050 mobile-html: allow clients to adjust tables

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• NHarateh_WMF created this task.Mar 11 2019, 5:22 PM

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• NHarateh_WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)Mar 11 2019, 6:06 PM

• NHarateh_WMF mentioned this in T206856: mobile-html: iOS prototype.Mar 13 2019, 12:32 PM

@bearND to move under the appropriate epic and prioritise. This could be blocked on figuring out how the app injects settings to the web view.

• bearND added a parent task: T177433: Develop HTML Content API to be used with companion structured JSON APIs.Mar 15 2019, 7:47 PM

LGoto triaged this task as Medium priority.Mar 27 2019, 3:54 PM

LGoto moved this task from Needs investigation to Upcoming on the Product-Infrastructure-Team-Backlog-Deprecated board.

JoeWalsh edited parent tasks, added: T222369: mobile-html: JavaScript abstraction layer; removed: T177433: Develop HTML Content API to be used with companion structured JSON APIs.May 7 2019, 1:29 PM

• bearND moved this task from Upcoming to Kanban on the Product-Infrastructure-Team-Backlog-Deprecated board.May 23 2019, 11:49 PM

• bearND edited projects, added Product-Infrastructure-Team-Backlog-Deprecated (Kanban); removed Product-Infrastructure-Team-Backlog-Deprecated.

• bearND claimed this task.May 29 2019, 3:35 PM

• bearND moved this task from To Do to Doing on the Product-Infrastructure-Team-Backlog-Deprecated (Kanban) board.

@Sharvaniharan @NHarateh_WMF Is this used by the apps by itself (just collapseTables)? If so how or where is it used? This functionality is exposed by the setMulti() function which should be called when a page loads.
Having a separate call for this, when we cannot reasonably assume what the state of the table collapsing is would require some refactoring work. That's why I wanted to check first if this is even needed as a stand-alone function.