Maarten, I've recently changed the API interface in the rewrite branch to allow sending multipart/form-data messages; see r7339. This is a foundation on which file uploading can be built.

Russ

----- Original Message ----- From: "Maarten Dammers" maarten@mdammers.nl To: "Pywikipedia discussion list" pywikipedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 7:27 AM Subject: [Pywikipedia-l] Upload api

Hi guys,

I'm playing around with the new upload api (it's enabled at http://test.wikipedia.org/). Now I'm wondering what the best way would be to implement it in the rewrite branch because uploading goes down to the core.

Three ways of uploading are possible: file, url and chunks

1. File: About the same way as we do now in upload.py, but use the api.

Prepare a form as multipart data and post it. 2. Url: Nice bandwith saver. You just pass the url of the file and the wiki will fetch it for you. 3. Chunks: Nice to get around timeout problems. The file is send in pieces (chunks) with a stop and wait protocol.

Url shouldn't be to hard to implement because it uses a normal http POST. File and chunks on the other hand need to be posted as multipart/form-data.

Any suggestions for the implementation?

Maarten

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