Export terms

[hober]

I tried to autolink the RemotePlayback interface by typing {{RemotePlayback}} in Bikeshed, but this interface is not exported from this spec.

Please consider exporting it, and the other bits of exposed API surface in the spec.

[tidoust]

I believe that the problem is not with the spec itself: all IDL terms are now exported by default by ReSpec (the RemotePlayback definition in the Editor's Draft does have a data-export attribute in particular), but the TR version was published too long ago to have the appropriate attributes.

Bikeshed does not have definitions from the RemotePlayback API in its database because that spec is not in Shepherd yet, which Bikeshed uses to build its database of terms. The current solution is to "contact the project maintainer and ask them to register your spec in Shepherd, so its definitions will be available to everyone else" (extract from Bikeshed's documentation). I'll raise that there. I'm not entirely sure that Shepherd can extract terms from an ED that uses Respec though (because it parses the source, not the processed document).

[tabatkins]

Ah yeah, those definitions are real wrong. The source does contain some data-dfn-type attributes, but they're wrong - RemotePlayback, for example, is marked as "dfn" type, which means you wouldn't be able to link it with {{RemotePlayback}} or have your IDL automatically link to it. (See line 1620.)

And the ED doesn't appear to have dfn attributes in the source at all.

When the spec looks like it's approximately correct, I'll be happy to link it in; until then it'll just make things more confusing. ^_^