Hi All, I'm writing an API module that I'd like to take 'complex' data for one of the parameters, e.g. {     "action": "example",     "token": "<some csrf token>",     "data": [         {"key": "value1", "otherkey": "othervalue1"},         {"key": "value2", "otherkey": "othervalue2", "optionalkey": "optionalvalue"},         {"key": "value3", "otherkey": "othervalue3"}     ] } The list in data can grow to several hundred elements all of which contain the same 2 keys with an optional third. For reference, I'm developing on mw1.31, but I can swap to something more recent if that's where new possibilities become available. This module takes POST requests, so I'd just send it as part of the request body, but when it comes to deserialising it, I'm not really sure what to deserialise it to as everything seems to assume primitive values, e.g. strings, integers, etc. when it comes to setting the parameter type. I'm not averse to claiming it's a string and deserialising it myself, but my attempts so far haven't proved successful. I also tried writing a phpunit test which displayed different behaviour (it seems to have quietly lost the value) and using the mwapi python library for an integration/end-to-end test which caused a third behaviour by quietly joining the elements in the list into a string. I get the feeling what I'm trying to do is at the very least non-standard for mediawiki. Does anyone have experience in trying to do this or know of prior art that does something similar? Cheers, Matt _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api

Matthew Dowdell &lt;mdowdell244(a)gmail.com&gt; hat am 25. Februar 2020 um 00:00 geschrieben: Hi All, I'm writing an API module that I'd like to take 'complex' data for one of the parameters, e.g. { "action": "example", "token": "<some csrf token>", "data": [ {"key": "value1", "otherkey": "othervalue1"}, {"key": "value2", "otherkey": "othervalue2", "optionalkey": "optionalvalue"}, {"key": "value3", "otherkey": "othervalue3"} ] } The list in data can grow to several hundred elements all of which contain the same 2 keys with an optional third. For reference, I'm developing on mw1.31, but I can swap to something more recent if that's where new possibilities become available. This module takes POST requests, so I'd just send it as part of the request body, but when it comes to deserialising it, I'm not really sure what to deserialise it to as everything seems to assume primitive values, e.g. strings, integers, etc. when it comes to setting the parameter type. I'm not averse to claiming it's a string and deserialising it myself, but my attempts so far haven't proved successful. I also tried writing a phpunit test which displayed different behaviour (it seems to have quietly lost the value) and using the mwapi python library for an integration/end-to-end test which caused a third behaviour by quietly joining the elements in the list into a string. I get the feeling what I'm trying to do is at the very least non-standard for mediawiki. Does anyone have experience in trying to do this or know of prior art that does something similar? Cheers, Matt _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api