[Mediawiki-api] Behaviour when no titles specified

Mark Wagner carnildo at gmail.com
Thu May 29 21:30:44 UTC 2008


On 5/29/08, Max Semenik <maxsem.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> Currently, when you specify not titles parameter for queries that
>  require it, such as http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=info
>  you get an empty result set:
>
>  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
>  <api />
>
>  Wouldn't it be more beneficial to return error in such cases, or at
>  least to provide a notice that there is noting to query from?

The current behavior makes sense to me: you ask for nothing, and you
get nothing in return.

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Mark
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