rest plugins should know which page is being compiled

[aurelien-naldi]

I want to access some of the metadata of the current page from a rest plugin and I can't find a way to get the current page in self.state.

I found out that by adding a reference to the "source" path when calling the rest compiler, I can retrieve it as self.state.document.settings._source, then find a matching page. Is it a good solution? Could this (or something similar) be integrated in the default rest compiler?

[aurelien-naldi]

Proposed solution: https://github.com/aurelien-naldi/nikola/commit/2964a35f36c59973631c8d1d71e4449e640ae4cb

[Kwpolska]

 l_source=source,

We’d need to rename this to source_path, but we need to make sure that it won’t collide.

[aurelien-naldi]

Indeed the source path is already given as argument, but is this available for the plugin afterwards?
If there is some way to get my plugin t work without a patched version of nikola, that would be perfect!

rst2html has this instruction: pub.set_source(source, source_path)
but source_path takes always has value "None", putting l_source here would work also.

[aurelien-naldi]

This also works for me: https://github.com/aurelien-naldi/nikola/commit/62bff7b008ffefbd6c8a30a7f9cf5b3f1b6c0432

[Kwpolska]

Looks good. Add yourself to /AUTHORS.txt and create a pull request.