Oups,

sorry for the mess. I thought I'm sending last one to the list.

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There probably should be an extra function in main to generate

output

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for a given format in addition to $api->getResultData() : $api->getFormattedResult($format)

This would be a very usefull method.

Or better - let API return a description what has been returned. getResultDescription, twin brother to getParamDescription?

Why would api describe what it has returned?? The requestor better know what it asked for :).

Two scenarios: - flash widget as a "multi-purpose" client. User can ask for several things.

- multi api call. User asks for eg. recent changes but from more than one wiki. If they run different MW codebase results will have slightly different form.

Btw. api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=apiversion would be usefull as well as with different MW even calls have different params,

przem.