[Mediawiki-api] CLI API anyone?

[Przemek Piotrowski]

Oups,

sorry for the mess. I thought I'm sending last one to the list.

>> > There probably should be an extra function in main to generate  
>> output
>> > for a given format in addition to $api->getResultData() :
>> >   $api->getFormattedResult($format)
>>
>> This would be a very usefull method.
>>
>> Or better - let API return a description what has been returned.
>> getResultDescription, twin brother to getParamDescription?

> Why would api describe what it has returned?? The requestor better
> know what it asked for :).

Two scenarios:
- flash widget as a "multi-purpose" client. User can ask for several  
things.

- multi api call. User asks for eg. recent changes but from more than  
one wiki. If they run different MW codebase results will have  
slightly different form.

Btw. api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=apiversion would be  
usefull as well as with different MW even calls have different params,

przem.