2010/7/28 Nicolas Vervelle <nvervelle(a)gmail.com>om>:
Hi,
A few hours ago, the following kind of API requests is producing an API
internal error.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?gbllimit=max&gbltitle=American&pr…
resulting in
<error code="internal_api_error_MWException" info="Exception Caught:
Internal error in ApiResult::setElement: Attempting to add element
backlinks=500, existing value is 500" xml:space="preserve">
If you remove the "gbllimit=max" parameter or replace it with a fixed value
(gbllimit=200), it works.
Would it be possible to fix this bug ?
This was an embarrassing fail on my part: I realized I'd broken
limit=max in some way just before going on vacation last week, but I
didn't realize it was this bad (I thought it would just use too high
maxima in certain situations) and I also didn't realize this code was
gonna be deployed within a week of writing it, so I decided against
texting a fellow developer from the airport.
Tim noticed and fixed this bug, and deployed the fix. The URL above is
now working again.
Sorry for all that,
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)