The existing API help, formatted as basically a plain-text document
embedded in XML and with a little bolding and a few links
syntax-highlighted in after the fact, works ok for experienced programmers
but isn't at all newbie-friendly. Further, all the help is hard-coded in
English, which isn't very friendly to non-English speakers.
So let's rewrite it. The help text is now obtained from i18n messages
and output in HTML, with the default display consisting of help for a
single module with links to help for other modules. This, of course,
necessitates deprecating many of the existing help-related methods and
hooks and replacing them with new ones, but backwards compatibility is
maintained for almost everything.
At the same time, action=paraminfo also needs to support the
'description' and other help-related fields being output in wikitext or
HTML, and I11cb063d (to access all modules via the 'modules' parameter
instead of having 'modules', 'formatmodules', 'querymodules', and so on)
is folded in.
And we also add Special:ApiHelp. When directly accessed, it simply
redirects to api.php with appropriate parameters. But it's also
transcludable to allow up-to-date API help text to be included within
the on-wiki documentation.
Note this patch doesn't actually add i18n messages for any API modules
besides ApiMain and ApiHelp. That will come in a followup patch, but for
the moment the backwards-compatibility code handles them nicely.
While we're messing with the documentation, we may as well add the
"internal" flag requested in bug 62905 (although the 'includeinternal'
parameter it also requests doesn't make much sense anymore) and a
"deprecated" flag that's needed by several modules now.
Bug: 30936
Bug: 38126
Bug: 42343
Bug: 45641
Bug: 62905
Bug: 63211
Change-Id: Ib14c00df06d85c2f6364d83b2b10ce34c7f513cc
This enables factory functions to be registered for API modules,
in addition to the module class itself. This allows modules to
use proper dependency injection via the modules constructor.
Example:
$wgAPIModules['foo'] = array(
'class' => 'ApiFoo',
'factory' => function( $main, $action ) { ... }
)
Change-Id: Ieb85493a7765f466317f5fa74b0b0e262220deab
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
* PageSet can now be used in any action to process titles/pageids/revids
or any generator, redirects resolution, and converttitle functionality.
* action=purge proper usage of MustBePosted()
* Add supports for all pageset capabilities - generators, redirects, converttitles to
action=purge and action=setnotificationtimestamp
* BREAKING CHANGE: ApiPageSet constructor now has two params instead of three, with only the
first one keeping its meaning. ApiPageSet is now derived from ApiBase.
* BREAKING CHANGE: ApiQuery::newGenerator() and executeGeneratorModule() were deleted.
Change-Id: I7a3d7b6eb015d21ec1a9b9d9c6af9d97663f3f9a
