[Mediawiki-api] adding action=getmsg

[Roan Kattouw]

2009/5/5 Brad Jorsch <b-jorsch at northwestern.edu>:
> On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 09:10:16AM -0700, Michael Dale wrote:
>> Could we add in an action get message to the api or add some
>> functionality to meta=allmessages ?
>>
>> Really need to be able to:
>> A) send in parameterized replace values per msg key
>> B) get the html rendered / parsed result (rather than the wikitext)
>>
>> Security wise the parameterized replace values should be treated as
>> wikitext and go through the wiki-text-parser before rendered back out to
>> the browser.
>
> I'm not sure how feasable that would actually be, as the messages are
> not all handled the same way. In fact, as far as I know there isn't even
> any generic way to tell how any particular message is handled besides
> "read the source". It all depends on how exactly the message is used in
> the code that actually makes use of it.
>
> Among other possibilities, the message could be treated as plain text,
> as raw HTML, as fully-parsed wikitext (action=parse), or as
> preprocessed-only wikitext (similar to if not the same as
> action=expandtemplates); see the various wfMsg* functions. Substitution
> of the parameters could be done before or after the message itself is
> processed, and the individual parameters could themselves have been
> processed in any manner before being passed to wfMsgWhatever.
>
Good point. Because parameter substitution is trivial (e.g. with PHP's
strtr() function) and all other functions (preprocess, parse) are
available already, this doesn't need any additional functionality.

Roan Kattouw (Catrope)