That's pretty normal (but admittedly confusing). For example, if you do a query for a page property, it will return empty string for true and nothing for false (which both evaluate to false in PHP): https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Bug&prop=page... https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Elvis&prop=pa...
This is mainly due to the fact that our API typically returns data as it exists in the database, not in a form most usable or parsable for 3rd party developers (unfortunately).
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Brian Gerstle bgerstle@wikimedia.org wrote:
For example:
"mainpage" field is omitted when querying Barack Obama < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox#action=mobileview&forma...
:
{ "mobileview": { "pageprops": [], "sections": [] } }
But, it's present when querying Main Page < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox#action=mobileview&forma...
:
{ "mobileview": { "pageprops": [], "mainpage": "", "sections": [ ... ]
}}
Is this the desired behavior?
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