[Mediawiki-api] Request for redirect info in backlinks query

[Nicolas Vervelle]

Hi,

(I also posted this at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:API:Query_-_Lists)

Hi,

I see that the backlinks query can already filter results depending if a 
backlink is a redirect or not (with blfiterredir) but I don't see a way 
to see in the result if backlinks are actually redirect or not. Could it 
be added to the API ?

I need to retrieve all backlinks (recursively through redirects), so 
currently I call recursively the backlinks query and the redirect query. 
Retrieving the 2 informations in one query would be very useful for me 
to speed up requests ;)

I quickly looked at the code of the backlinks query and it seems simple 
to do (I may be overlooking things because I don't know how the API is 
working) :
* In run(), call $this->addField('page_is_redirect'); if needed.
* In extractRowInfo(), add something like $vals['redirect'] = 
intval($row->page_is_redirect);.

Thanks in advance for any answer :)

Nico