Have the front-end work with canonical form rather than hybrid normal form
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	May 6 2021, 4:27 PM

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(Discussion still pending whether normal or canonical, but definitely getting rid of the hybrid form)

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	Have the front-end work with canonical form rather than hybrid form	mediawiki/extensions/WikiLambda	master	+124 -32

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Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
Resolved		SimoneThisDot	T282811 Let the wiki emit canonical form
Invalid		None	T282812 Update Vuex to be able to convert a Z10/List from normal to canonical
Invalid		None	T282813 Rewrite Z10 component to deal with the normal form
Invalid		None	T282814 Ensure Z8/Function component still works as before
Resolved		SimoneThisDot	T282161 Have the front-end work with canonical form rather than hybrid normal form
Resolved	BUG REPORT	Lindsaykwardell	T282609 List elements in Special:EvaluateFunctionCall seem to eat themselves when adding the first item

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Jdforrester-WMF created this task.May 6 2021, 4:27 PM

DVrandecic moved this task from To triage to Phase ε on the Abstract Wikipedia team board.May 12 2021, 4:25 PM

DVrandecic edited projects, added Abstract Wikipedia team (Phase ε); removed Abstract Wikipedia team.

DVrandecic triaged this task as High priority.May 12 2021, 4:38 PM

When ZObject.vue components where mutating its own properties we found that it was problematic to have the ZObject value be a string instead of an object, because in that case it could not use $.set to mutate it. The "selective" normalization of strings and references was done to avoid this problem. However, now the ZObject component is not doing any mutations, and all object changes are being handled in the store. So the reason why this was done in the first place doesn't exist anymore, but I am not sure if there's any other use case where the "normalish" form would be useful.

DVrandecic added a subtask: T282609: List elements in Special:EvaluateFunctionCall seem to eat themselves when adding the first item.May 12 2021, 6:00 PM

Changed title. For some reason, I had mixed up normal and canonical for a while.

DVrandecic mentioned this in T282811: Let the wiki emit canonical form.May 13 2021, 6:56 PM

DVrandecic renamed this task from Consider having the front-end work with full normal form rather than hybrid normal form to Have the front-end work with full normal form rather than hybrid normal form.May 13 2021, 8:06 PM

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DVrandecic added a parent task: T282811: Let the wiki emit canonical form.

DVrandecic edited parent tasks, added: T282814: Ensure Z8/Function component still works as before; removed: T282811: Let the wiki emit canonical form.

DVrandecic renamed this task from Have the front-end work with full normal form rather than hybrid normal form to Have the front-end work with canonical form rather than hybrid normal form.May 14 2021, 4:43 PM

SimoneThisDot claimed this task.May 25 2021, 2:04 PM

Change 694509 had a related patch set uploaded (by Simone Cuomo; author: Simone Cuomo):

[mediawiki/extensions/WikiLambda@master] Have the front-end work with canonical form rather than hybrid form

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/694509

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.May 25 2021, 2:54 PM

Jdforrester-WMF closed this task as Resolved.May 26 2021, 4:32 PM

DVrandecic closed subtask T282609: List elements in Special:EvaluateFunctionCall seem to eat themselves when adding the first item as Resolved.May 26 2021, 4:32 PM

Change 694509 merged by jenkins-bot: