'Pywikibot' has this problem. The results dont show which version is doing it. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Brad Jorsch (Anomie)" bjorsch@wikimedia.org Date: 30 Jan 2016 6:06 am Subject: [Wikitech-l] *unclear-"now"-timestamp* (was Re: Bot operators: Please check your configuration) To: "Wikimedia developers" wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org, "MediaWiki API announcements & discussion" mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org Cc:
On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 1:41 PM, Bináris wikiposta@gmail.com wrote:
2016-01-29 18:56 GMT+01:00 Brad Jorsch (Anomie) bjorsch@wikimedia.org:
by going to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:ApiFeatureUsage, entering your agent (or any useful prefix of it), and looking for "https-expected".
What does *unclear-"now"-timestamp* mean here?
For various API timestamp-typed parameters, you can pass unusual values such as the empty string or "0" and it will be interpreted as meaning "now", which doesn't make very much sense except for the fact that it has always done that. If you really mean "now", you should pass that as the value instead.
action=edit even has to hack around this to avoid spurious edit conflicts if you do it for the 'basetimestamp' parameter. Ideally we'd make empty string and '0' be rejected as invalid timestamps, but first people have to stop passing them in.
-- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Senior Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Can't we raise an error if basetimestamp is not a Timestamp, or is 0 or empty? So we might understand in which cases it still happens?
On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 9:28 PM, John Mark Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
'Pywikibot' has this problem. The results dont show which version is doing it. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Brad Jorsch (Anomie)" bjorsch@wikimedia.org Date: 30 Jan 2016 6:06 am Subject: [Wikitech-l] *unclear-"now"-timestamp* (was Re: Bot operators: Please check your configuration) To: "Wikimedia developers" wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org, "MediaWiki API announcements & discussion" mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org Cc:
On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 1:41 PM, Bináris wikiposta@gmail.com wrote:
2016-01-29 18:56 GMT+01:00 Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <bjorsch@wikimedia.org :
by going to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:ApiFeatureUsage, entering your agent (or any useful prefix of it), and looking for "https-expected".
What does *unclear-"now"-timestamp* mean here?
For various API timestamp-typed parameters, you can pass unusual values such as the empty string or "0" and it will be interpreted as meaning "now", which doesn't make very much sense except for the fact that it has always done that. If you really mean "now", you should pass that as the value instead.
action=edit even has to hack around this to avoid spurious edit conflicts if you do it for the 'basetimestamp' parameter. Ideally we'd make empty string and '0' be rejected as invalid timestamps, but first people have to stop passing them in.
-- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Senior Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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