On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 9:27 AM, Markus Kroetzsch markus.kroetzsch@tu-dresden.de wrote:
Hi,
It seems that some changes have been made to the JSON serialization recently:
https://github.com/Wikidata/Wikidata-Toolkit/issues/237
Could somebody from the dev team please comment on this? Is this going to be in the dumps as well or just in the API? Are further changes coming up? Are we ever going to get email notifications of API changes implemented by the team rather than having to fix the damage after they happened?
Hey Markus,
Sorry. You are right in that I should have announced the addition. It slipped through. As we've said before we don't consider adding fields a breaking change. Nonetheless I should have announced it.
For your particular usecase it seems the addition is actually useful because the entity id no longer needs to be created from the entity type and ID field. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5455014/ignoring-new-fields-on-json-obje... might also be helpful.
Cheers Lydia