On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 7:53 AM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
> With formatversion=2, we can make some useful changes:
>
> - Return booleans as boolean true instead of empty-string. Where
> appropriate,[1] return boolean false instead of omitting the property.
> - Return empty objects in JSON as {}, rather than [].
> - Have action=query's "pages" be an array, instead of an object with
> page ids as keys that can be difficult to iterate.
> - Provide useful property names instead of '*'.
> - Eliminate useless indirection, e.g. {"text":"..."} instead of
> {"text":{"*":"..."}} and {"key1":"value1","key2":"value2"} instead of
> [{"name":"key1","*":"value1"},{"name":"key2","*":"value2"}].
>
>
formatversion=2 looks great, Brad. Thanks for the improvements.
-Frances
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