On 6 August 2014 14:53, Tim Starling <tstarling(a)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.
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