On 18.02.2013, 18:57 Brad wrote:
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 7:24 AM, Yuri Astrakhan
<yuriastrakhan(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> How useful would it be for Lua to access to the query/content/parser API be?
>
> I am suspecting there could be a lot of creative usages of this, including
> getting data from the wikidata (which won't have to do anything special to
> enable this)
Personally, I'd be extremely wary of allowing Lua
(which is run in the
middle of the page parse, remember) to be issuing HTTP requests on WMF
sites. Especially after seeing how slow using ForeignAPIRepo for file
accesses makes my local test wiki.[1]
No HTTP access is needed, however, this changes nothing: allowing API
calls from Lua opens such a nice can of worms that we don't want to do
it at the same time as Lua rollout, too much fun.
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Best regards,
Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]])