2013/6/13 Merlijn van Deen valhallasw@arctus.nl:
Hi Strainu,
On 13 June 2013 17:07, Strainu strainu10@gmail.com wrote:
Is there some reason why the Page class does not have a getSize function, except the fact that it's trivial to obtain it from .get() ?
I don't think there was a specific design decision not to implement it, other than 'no-one ever needed it'. It's also not entirely clear what 'size' means in this context: the number of characters, the number of bytes in a given encoding.
What is the use case where you think it would be useful?
Hi,
I needed it today in order to compute some quick and simple statistics about a series of pages (e.g. "which were the largest deletion discussions in a given period"). Now that I think of it, I could probably use it to decide when I am likely to hit https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43046
Alex's usecase is also interesting, but I'm not sure it's possible - I believe size would require an API call, which is almost as expensive as a get() for most pages.
I think the meaning of "size" can be only one: the number of bytes, in order to make it simple to compare with what MediaWiki is showing in the history pages.
Strainu