Currently, when you specify not titles parameter for queries that require it, such as http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=info you get an empty result set:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <api />
Wouldn't it be more beneficial to return error in such cases, or at least to provide a notice that there is noting to query from?
Max Semenik schreef:
Currently, when you specify not titles parameter for queries that require it, such as http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=info you get an empty result set:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<api />
Wouldn't it be more beneficial to return error in such cases, or at least to provide a notice that there is noting to query from?
Isn't this also clear? The API quite literally returns nothing.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)
On 5/29/08, Max Semenik maxsem.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
Currently, when you specify not titles parameter for queries that require it, such as http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=info you get an empty result set:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<api />
Wouldn't it be more beneficial to return error in such cases, or at least to provide a notice that there is noting to query from?
The current behavior makes sense to me: you ask for nothing, and you get nothing in return.
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