what i think you need is to create a custom printer for your action. I remember some api modules do that for various reasons. See getCustomPrinter

On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 3:26 PM, webmaster@numerica.cl wrote:

On 28.12.2012 17:13, Yuri Astrakhan wrote:

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What do you mean by return from an api extension? Are you saying you want to custom-format the resulting API output? non-json, etc?

hi Yuri, thanks for the quick reply.

Exactly, I would need it to return just plain text/html for an other program to interpret it, so having it inside an array is problematic. Sounds too difficult?

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By the way, Yuri's suggestion did work. I don't know if you use to post code in this list for the archive, so i will be succint: let's say I subclassed ApiFormatBase and overwrote execute like this

public function execute() { $data = $this->getResultData(); $this->printText($data[0]); }

so it strips the array from the response just gettings it's first value.

Then, in the extension code, getCustomePrinter is also overriden like this

public function getCustomPrinter() { return new MyApiFormat($this->getMain(),'plain'); }

& that's all folks.

Not too pretty, since the return array can be set only once, but it's enough for my needs and I think it can be easily worked on.

So this is my give back.

On 28.12.2012 17:34, webmaster@numerica.cl wrote:

Great, that method had called my attention indeed. Let's see what it can do... Thanks for the pointer.

¡Felices fiestas!

On 28.12.2012 17:29, Yuri Astrakhan wrote:

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what i think you need is to create a custom printer for your action. I remember some api modules do that for various reasons. See getCustomPrinter

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On 28.12.2012 17 [1]:13, Yuri Astrakhan wrote:

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What do you mean by return from an api extension? Are you saying you want to custom-format the resulting API output? non-json, etc?

hi Yuri, thanks for the quick reply. Exactly, I would need it to return just plain text/html for an other program to interpret it, so having it inside an array is problematic. Sounds too difficult?

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On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 7:49 AM, Brad Jorsch bjorsch@wikimedia.org wrote:

On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 3:26 PM, webmaster@numerica.cl wrote:

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Exactly, I would need it to return just plain text/html for an other program to interpret it, so having it inside an array is problematic. Sounds too difficult?

Be careful you don't introduce security holes when doing this. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting might be a good read.

Yes please. Whatever the output, you want to make sure it's not interpreted as html, otherwise a <script> tag in the text will execute javascript if it's loaded in an iframe, or one of your users is redirected to the api's output somehow. Obviously, if this is just for your own wiki, you can decide if that's a threat or not. If you want to merge it into core, then you will need to do a lot of filtering on the output.