New subject: [Mediawiki-api-announce] MediaWiki API changes & new "continue" functionality

13 Mar 2013


      == *Changes* ==
* list=watchlist now returns user id in properly named tag in addition to
"user". In the case of wlprop=user|userid, the "user" will be the name, not
the id as before.(patch https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/49390/ by Petr
Onderka)
* meta=allmessages&lang= will now return "aminvalidlang" error in case
"lang" contains invalid characters
(patchhttps://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/53362/ by
Anomie)
== *New functionality* ==
* There is now a
newhttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Query#Continuing_queries,
simplified way to iterate through the query results. The new feature will
make it much less likely to accidentally skip any data, and will greatly
simplify client code. It will be made default in API
2.0http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/API_Future,
but
for now has to be explicitly enabled with a "*continue=*" parameter. See sample
code http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Query#Continuing_queries how to
use the new continue. Please consider using it in all new development. (
patch https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/50930/ by yurik)
== *See also* ==
* API roadmaphttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/API_Future
* API cleanuphttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/API_roadmap/Naming_Cleanup
*== Important reminder to API users ==*
Please ensure you set the user agent string to contain both the name of
your tool, the framework it uses, and a way to contact you. See User-Agent
policy http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User-Agent_policy. API users that
do not follow this policy may be banned at any moment.
Example:* MyCoolTool/1.1 (http://example.com/MyCoolTool/;
MyCoolTool@example.com) BasedOnSuperLib/1.4*
**
--yurik
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