There've been some worries expressed on the changeset comments, namely:

* changing the JSON OpenSearch behavior changes MediaWiki's search box
suggestion behavior, and right now it may be unclear just what's going on

Possibilities are:

a) do this change, but also change the search suggestion module that uses
the JSON OpenSearch to use the old behavior

b) do a similar change that switches the XML default to the old JSON
default instead

c) cancel this changeset and go improve the search dropdown frontend before
tweaking this again?

Thoughts?

-- brion


On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 2:29 PM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote:

> I've got a changeset in code review to make the default redirect
> resolution behavior of action=opensearch consistent between JSON and
> XML-mode requests.
>
> Bug: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T19142
> Patch: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/190290
>
> Originally the JSON version did not resolve redirects as it was easier to
> implement that way, while the XML implementation was separately written and
> did resolution in order to improve display of content snippets. Content
> snippets are now included in JSON as well as XML since the implementations
> were merged, and in general it seems to be better behavior to be consistent
> across data formats for the same requests.
>
> The original behavior can be obtained by supplying an explicit
> 'redirects=return' parameter to the API request.
>
> Are there any compatibility worries here?
>
> -- brion
>
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