Thanks for the quick response.
I am using JSON .Net. A correction in what I meant, sorry about that. While I am able to deserialize it, I am not able to access the property post deserialization. I am using C# dynamic object to store the deserialized response and trying to access the property with * Normally, I am able to access a property using object.PropertyName. Just after I sent the email, I accessed the property using object["*"] instead of object.* and that worked. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Betacommand Sent: Monday, December 15, 2014 10:55 AM To: MediaWiki API announcements & discussion Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-api] Results from API in json format returns * as one of the properties What JSON library are you using? Any decent library will handle it. On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 1:52 PM, practikalmind <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Hi, When I submit the API http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=query&prop=revisions&rvprop=content%7Cids&pageids=7412236> &action=query&prop=revisions&rvprop=content|ids&pageids=7412236 I get the below with one of the properties as a *. Is it possible to get with a name like say content instead of the *. I am not able to de-serialize the response. revisions ------{} *={{about|the person|the biography|Steve Jobs (book)|the 2013 biographical film|Jobs (film)}}…….. contentformat=text/x-wiki contentmodel=wikitext parentid=638035784 revid=638103683 Thanks _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
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