ApiResult was a mess: some methods could only be used with an array
reference instead of manipulating the stored data, methods that had both
array-ref and internal-data versions had names that didn't at all
correspond, some methods that worked on an array reference were
annoyingly non-static, and then the whole mess with setIndexedTagName.
ApiFormatXml is also entirely annoying to deal with, as it liked to
throw exceptions if certain metadata wasn't provided that no other
formatter required. Its legacy also means we have this silly convention
of using empty-string rather than boolean true, annoying restrictions on
keys (leading to things that should be hashes being arrays of key-value
object instead), '*' used as a key all over the place, and so on.
So, changes here:
* ApiResult is no longer an ApiBase or a ContextSource.
* Wherever sensible, ApiResult provides a static method working on an
arrayref and a non-static method working on internal data.
* Metadata is now always added to ApiResult's internal data structure.
Formatters are responsible for stripping it if necessary. "raw mode"
is deprecated.
* New metadata to replace the '*' key, solve the array() => '[]' vs '{}'
question, and so on.
* New class for formatting warnings and errors using i18n messages, and
support for multiple errors and a more machine-readable format for
warnings. For the moment, though, the actual output will not be changing
yet (see T47843 for future plans).
* New formatversion parameter for format=json and format=php, to select
between BC mode and the modern output.
* In BC mode, booleans will be converted to empty-string presence style;
modules currently returning booleans will need to use
ApiResult::META_BC_BOOLS to preserve their current output.
Actual changes to the API modules' output (e.g. actually returning
booleans for the new formatversion) beyond the use of
ApiResult::setContentValue() are left for a future change.
Bug: T76728
Bug: T57371
Bug: T33629
Change-Id: I7b37295e8862b188d1f3b0cd07f66ac34629678f
This also adds some new ApiBase::PARAM_* constants to generate more
helpful help, and a method to override the default description message
for the use of ApiDisabled and ApiQueryDisabled.
Bug: 71638
Change-Id: Ic0c3d232e0498d58a043037e2e0c6f0b1c3edad3
Someone objected to the possibility of removing the deprecated llurl
because prop=iwlinks still had an iwurl parameter, and they wanted
parallelism. So let's deprecate iwurl too.
Change-Id: I675c36868d6ce531a9de632203ca7b9742d63be1
The format for 'props' was never specified and the list for 'errors' is
impossible to keep updated when considering that many errors come from
MediaWiki backend code and extension hook functions. And since there
doesn't seem to be any real use case for either of these, let's just
kill both of them instead of wasting effort on trying to fix them.
Note that neither getResultProperties nor getPossibleErrors are called
from any extensions in gerrit, and none of the other deprecated methods
are called outside of the implementations of those two methods. Removing
the obsolete methods is left to the maintainers of the extensions, as
keeping them hurts nothing and is needed to maintain compatibility with
earlier versions of MediaWiki.
Change-Id: Ie11a401d60c834059fbf1b5625ca8ea093b3337c
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
The iwlinks and langlinks modules continue parameters imply ordering by
page then prefix then title. But in certain modes, the actual queries
use a different ordering, which may result in skipped or repeated
results.
This changeset fixes that. To do so, it needs to re-add an index
iwl_prefix_from_title which was mistakenly removed in 2010 (r69721). And
while it's doing that, it cleans up errors in the sqlite and postgresql
handling of the iwlinks indexes too.
Also, per Asher, make the iwl_prefix_from_title and
iwl_prefix_title_from indexes non-UNIQUE.
Change-Id: I607e8bf9183a2d8152a6127a81c83a0b5bba0c61
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
* If a query module has 'continue' parameter, it will auto-report
that it has 'badcontinue' error.
* Added APIQueryBase::DieUsageContinueIf( $condition ) that shows
correct badcontinue error if $condition is true.
Change-Id: I9c48bda6de0cde3c117ad24460bddf6980279633
API continuation parameters encode sufficient state for a subsequent
query to continue where the previous one left off; this may sometimes
include page titles, with or without the namespace. Given that these
page titles are already in the exact format required for the next
request's SQL query, it is not necessary to "normalize" them in any way.
And if normalization does more than just change spaces to underscores or
vice versa (e.g. it canonicalizes namespace aliases or capitalizes the
first letter of the title), it can be actively harmful: see bug 36987
and bug 29290.
Note this patch involves a breaking API change: the values for the
"continue" parameter of various modules have been changed, and some
modules will now return "continue" as the continuation parameter instead
of reusing "from".
Note this patch also corrects a minor logic bug in ApiQueryAllLinks,
changing ">" to ">=". The line is being changed anyway, so I didn't
bother doing a separate changeset.
Change-Id: I459232e919d20f89f6de9d20640fd48c8fd5781c
Doxygen choke on text enclosed by '<' and '>' since it tries to
interpret them as HTML or XML elements. This patch adds double quotes
in includes/api/*.php files around the two following strings:
<Firstname>.<Lastname>@gmail.com
<Firstname><Lastname>@gmail.com
Which becomes:
"<Firstname>.<Lastname>@gmail.com"
"<Firstname><Lastname>@gmail.com"
Tested locally, it prevents doxygen 1.8.0 related warnings.
Change-Id: I36d82eb3fd4989ee3ffc65b0b527b83711d1ba69
Added information about the properties of the results of API calls
to action=paraminfo, including information about "property groups":
what should the prop parameter be set to to get that property.
Uses the same format for types as parameters already do.
The output format of some modules doesn't fit this, so the result
properties for them weren't added, or only partially.
Partially implemented modules:
* expandtemplates:
parsetree is in its own tag
* protect, allusers, backlinks, deletedrevs, info, imageinfo,
logevents, querypage, recentchanges, revisions, searchinfo,
usercontribs, userinfo, users, watchlist, upload:
response with partially complex structure
Not implemented modules:
* feedcontributions, feedwatchlist, opensearch, rds:
non-standard reponse
* help:
error is normal response; not very useful for automated tools anyway
* paraminfo, parse, pageprops, siteinfo, userrights:
response with complex structure
Change-Id: Iff2a9bef79f994e73eef3062b4dd5461bff968ab
and 'continue' for some prop-Modules
Due to missing change of the where for the query-continue in my first
patch, using dir=descending will end up in a loop
Change-Id: I6a9ade9feddcfd046de347cd83a756af828b5c18
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.
* Introduced a "cache mode" concept to simplify the header generation code, and to avoid odd results when conflicting cache header requests are received from submodules, or at least to formalise the handling of such cases.
* Made the cache mode private by default, so that code written in ignorance of caching tends to be safe. If different query modules are used in a single request, private caching is preferred over public caching.
* Removed the "must-revalidate" option from all CC headers, this is really specific to page views with a hacked squid in front, I don't think it's applicable here.
* Made the watchlist module private. This is really the definition of private data. There's nothing in the HTTP spec that says the URL for a CC:public request is private and can't be leaked. CC:private provides protection against unknown proxy behaviour.
* In ApiQueryAllmessages: avoid calling $wgLang->getCode() to check if it's necessary to make a new $wgLang when lang= is specified, since this is the only thing that unstubs $wgUser.
* Removed "FIXME: should this check $user instead of $wgUser?" Answer is no.
