On 18.02.2013, 18:57 Brad wrote:
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 7:24 AM, Yuri Astrakhan yuriastrakhan@gmail.com wrote:
How useful would it be for Lua to access to the query/content/parser API be?
I am suspecting there could be a lot of creative usages of this, including getting data from the wikidata (which won't have to do anything special to enable this)
Personally, I'd be extremely wary of allowing Lua (which is run in the middle of the page parse, remember) to be issuing HTTP requests on WMF sites. Especially after seeing how slow using ForeignAPIRepo for file accesses makes my local test wiki.[1]
No HTTP access is needed, however, this changes nothing: allowing API calls from Lua opens such a nice can of worms that we don't want to do it at the same time as Lua rollout, too much fun.