Hi!
Output from Special:EntityData is cached for 31 days.
Looking at the code, it
seems we are not automatically purging the web caches when an entity is edited -
please file a ticket for that. I think we originally decided against it for
performance reasons (there are quite a few URLs to purge for every edit), but I
suppose we should look into that again.
That would be nice. Right now I'm using cache-defeating URL to fetch
data in WDQS because obviously getting 31-day old data is not good. But
if data for Special:EntityData URLs would be purged on edit that could
allow to simplify that part a bit and maybe also save some performance
impact when running multiple WDQS instances.
You can force the cache to be purged by setting
action=purge in the request.
Note that this will purge all serializations of the entity, not just the one
requested.
That also what would happen on edit, I assume.
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Stas Malyshev
smalyshev(a)wikimedia.org