[Mediawiki-api] [Mediawiki-api-announce] BREAKING CHANGE: list={backlinks, embeddedin, imageusage} no longer return arrays with pageIDs as keys (was: Inconstisent [sic] formatting of results in JSON)

[Roan Kattouw]

This change only affects clients using the JSON, PHP, WDDX, PHP, TXT and 
DBG formats. If you're using the XML or YAML formats, nothing will 
change for you.

The list=backlinks, list=embeddedin and list=imageusage used to return 
arrays with pageIDs as keys, duplicating information (those arrays also 
contain the pageID). An example (in JSON):

{
	"query": {
		"backlinks": {
			"1024": {
				"pageid": "1024",
				"ns": 1,
				"title": "Talk:Anarcho-capitalism"
			},
			"1236": {
				"pageid": "1236",
				"ns": 1,
				"title": "Talk:Algorithm"
			}
		}
	}
}


After a complaint [1] about this behavior, it was changed in r39645 [2]. 
Like all other list= modules, backlinks and friends now return arrays 
with 0, 1, 2, etc. as keys. In JSON this looks like:

{
	"query": {
		"backlinks": [
			{
				"pageid": "1024",
				"ns": 1,
				"title": "Talk:Anarcho-capitalism"
			},
			{
				"pageid": "1236",
				"ns": 1,
				"title": "Talk:Algorithm"
			}
		]
	}
}

Roan Kattouw (Catrope)

[1] 
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-api/2008-August/000657.html
[2] http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki?view=rev&revision=39645


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