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) _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
