json-editor branch: adding data dependency display

[Shane Curcuru <as...@shanecurcuru.org>]

Perhaps a poorly-named branch, but I'd like to implement some display of
data dependencies.  Whimsy swizzles a lot of different data sources into
/public and into various scripts, and it's useful to visualize where all
the source data is for different things.

Question: what's the fastest (runtime-wise) way to store the
test/dataflow.json dependency data?  As JSON to be read (locally if
possible), or as a new model in whimsy/ASF that simply reflects the JSON
structure as hash?

Given that I'd like to add a new ASF::Themes _whimsy_dataflow method
that any page might want to implement.  So for whimsy pages that display
big tables of data, they could have a small footer that does a cut-down
version of test/dataflow.cgi, just showing dependencies for their own
data page.

Obviously, this should move out of /test, but I wasn't sure the best
place to put it.  Perhaps a new www/docs directory, for "things that
aren't code, but document how Whimsy works"?


Separately, I thought it might be useful to add our own JSON
editor/viewer for simple checking of the various JSON files, but 1) I'm
not sure it's useful for anyone else, and 2) my local testing is borked
on a JS error.  But that's why the branch is named that way.
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- Shane
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