[Mediawiki-api] parse output

[Roan Kattouw]

Michael Dale schreef:
> *snip*
>> Yes, it's been filed before and WONTFIXed because parsing dozens or 
>> hundreds of pages in one request is kind of scary performance-wise
> 
> but clearly it would be more resource efficient than issuing 30 separate 
> additional requests... maybe we could enable it with a low row return 
> count say 30 ? 
For queries that's true, but for stuff like parsing there wouldn't be 
much of a difference in performance.

> It should be able to grab the output from the parse cache 
> no?
> 
It does that already, *if* the page you're parsing is in the parser cache.

> With my use case of returning search result descriptions...it does not 
> really need html it just needs striped wikitext or even a striped 
> segment of wikitext.
> 
You'd be way better off stripping wikitext yourself then. Shouldn't be 
too hard.

> * Maybe we could support the output striped wikitext (really what we 
> want for search results) ...
> 
> It appears Lucene and the internal mysql store the index in striped form 
> if we could add access to that from the api that would be ideal way 
> forward I think.
> 
That'd be good, yes. I'll look into this.

Roan Kattouw (Catrope)