Which type is used depends on the ApiModuleManager responsible for
the API module. There are two managers, one in ApiMain and one in
ApiQuery. Both contain a list of API modules they instantiate.
Both use $this as the first parameter in the constructors of the
individual modules. There is no other regular way to instantiate the
modules, so we know the type must either be ApiMain or ApiQuery.
The lists don't intersect.
I would have prefered the naming scheme $mainModule for ApiMain
modules and $queryModule for ApiQuery modules but since this
doesn't add much I left the shorter variable names untouched.
Change-Id: Ie6bf19150f1c9b619655a06a8e051412665e54db
Swapped some "$var type" to "type $var" or added missing types
before the $var. Changed some other types to match the more common
spelling. Makes beginning of some text in captial.
Also added some missing @param.
Change-Id: I758fa4ad80ac95e2ddd3770bcb9b7d2e57ec34ea
There is no reason for this parameter not to accept multiple values, the
query is structurally exactly the same as for something like
prop=categories&clcategories=....
Unless, of course, we need to support page props with "|" in the name.
Change-Id: I38cd83e213ede8e626d55c079c5c1b6f7e727336
API was using SVN's version keyword which GIT does not support.
All related methods were either removed, or for those that
could have been used from extensions, emptied out.
api.php?version now shows unrecognized param warning.
Change-Id: I910ca1448ed2ed697ac19b17c486d130aa1d7e03
It's a parctice that dates back to 2006 when the API was first written, and frankly isn't covered by the coding conventions. Same thing with the docblocks, they're all copypasted with some bits changed and don't even make sense if you look at them in the genereated code docs.
I don't feel that any of us depend on this anymore (get a better IDE), so in the inerest of consistancy it's time we said goodbye to it.
