On 6 August 2014 14:53, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 06/08/14 14:32, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) wrote:
When api.php was basically the only API in MediaWiki, calling it "the API" worked well. But now we've got a Parsoid API, Gabriel's work on a REST content API, Gabriel's work on an internal storage API, and more on the way. So just saying "the API" is getting confusing.
So let's bikeshed a reasonably short name for it that isn't something awful like "the api.php API". I'm horrible at naming.
How about "the action API"? The fact that it is organised in a hierarchy of actions distinguishes it from REST, which is organised as a hierarchy of objects. The term "action" also distinguishes it from RPC.
[Relaying conversations at Wikimania.]
Yes, this is sensible. Let's certainly not call it "the MediaWiki API" given how many are planned.
J.