Hi,
Andre Engels did some analysis of the type of API formats used. The data is from a single random Sunday in late 2011:
1997267 application/json 314285 text/xml 171259 - 68358 application/vnd.php.serialized 55549 text/html 34680 text/javascript 8907 application/x-www-form-urlencoded 8882 application/xml 807 application/rsd+xml 467 text/text 105 application/x-www-form-urlencoded; 18 application/yaml 1 multipart/form-data;
yaml is used for the query and parse API actions. On this particular day, the following services used yaml:
http://www.huddba.cz corporama.com reftag.appspot.com
Thank you Andre!
Best, Diederik
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 7:45 PM, Roan Kattouw roan.kattouw@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 11:42 PM, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
What are the other problems?
I'm not sure what Max is referring to, other than the fact that I hate XML (or at least using XML for this API) and generally don't like the fact that we have to support so many formats. As I said on Bugzilla earlier today, if I ever were to rewrite the API from scratch it'd be JSON-only. However, we can't actually get rid of XML realistically.
- YAML - we don't serve real YAML anyway, currently it's just a subset
of JSON.
YAML is just a few harmless lines of code, why would you want to remove it?
Yeah that can probably stay, it's not worth breaking anything over.
Roan
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