Mediawiki 1.12 new Api Question - MediaWiki-l

27 Jun 2008


      Hello List,
currently I am adopting the PreviewGallery Gadget originally developed by Magnus Manske.
Now I have a problem with the API.
Is it possible to get the Timestamps from Images like in the query.php?
The old version was:
query.php?what=categories&clextended&format=xml&titles=Bild:LC80.JPG
This creates the following Output: (as you can see with "timestamp" in the cl branch)
<yurik>
        <perf>
                <total startup="271" dbtime="1.2" time="294.7"/>
                <pageInfo dbtime="0.7" time="22.4"/>
                <categories dbtime="0.5" time="1"/>
        </perf>
        <pages>
                <page>
                <ns>6</ns>
                <title>Bild:LC80.JPG</title>
                <id>243</id>
                <touched>20080625085045</touched>
                <revid>797</revid>
                <categories>
                        <cl ns="14" sortkey="Bild:LC80.JPG" timestamp="2008-06-25 08:50:45">Kategorie:Plattform 1</cl>
                        <cl ns="14" sortkey="Bild:LC80.JPG" timestamp="2008-06-25 08:50:45">Kategorie:Prospektfotos</cl>
                </categories>
                </page>
        </pages>
</yurik>                ......
Now with the NEW Api I am trying the following:
        api.php?action=query&prop=categories&clprop=sortkey&format=xml&titles=Bild:LC80.JPG
I am getting almost the same, but not the timestamps:
        <api>
        <query>
                <pages>
                        <page pageid="243" ns="6" title="Bild:LC80.JPG">
                                <categories>
                                        <cl ns="14" title="Kategorie:Plattform 1" sortkey="Bild:LC80.JPG"/>
                                        <cl ns="14" title="Kategorie:Prospektfotos" sortkey="Bild:LC80.JPG"/>
                                </categories>
                        </page>
                </pages>
        </query>
</api>
The official Documentation of the API tells me to use "clprop" as a parameter to "prop=categories" but it always throws the error "<error code="clunknown_clprop" info="Unrecognised value for parameter 'clprop'"/>" after appending "clprop=timestamp" to my calling routine.
Is there somebody who can help me?
Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Tobias Heilmannseder
Softwareentwickler