Do a load action in admin.php for importers

[simonwheatley]

Every type of page in the admin area has an equivalent load-[whatever] type action, which is triggered before any HTML has been rendered. This is handy if a plugin needs to process some data which might require a redirect header to be set, or to affect HTML which is rendered before the admin screen main content (e.g. admin notices).

The exception to the rule is the importers. I propose adding an action which would allow plugins and themes to execute code at this point as easily as they can in other areas of WP admin.

[simonwheatley]

Diff adds do_action("load-importer-$importer"); into admin.php within this block of the conditional where the other load actions are triggered. The use of "load-importer" rather than "load-" is to get around the possible problems of having a plugin page hook which clashes… but perhaps I'm wrong or overly concerned?

[scribu]

I think 'load-importer-' is a good precaution.

[nacin]

I can go for something like this. Not sure if I like the idea of modeling it after "load-*", as those hooks are specifically acting on $hook_suffix, while in this case the hook suffix would be "admin.php". Either way, namespacing it so it is load-importer-$importer or "import_$importer" or "load_importer_$importer" seems good to me.

[simonwheatley]

I chose load-importer-$importer as it indicates the similarity with the other load-$whatever hooks. Personally I favour dashes in hooks, and again this would be consistent with the other load-$whatever hooks.

[nacin]

I am satisfied with the use case presented here as well as 21701-sw-1.diff​. Leaving this for duck_ and westi to weigh in.

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[westi]

Replying to nacin:

I am satisfied with the use case presented here as well as 21701-sw-1.diff​. Leaving this for duck_ and westi to weigh in.

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Looks good to me.

[nacin]

In [21183]:

load-importer-$importer hook. props simonwheatley. fixes #21071.