jayvdb created this task.
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Herald added subscribers: pywikibot-bugs-list, Aklapper.
TASK DESCRIPTION
Pywikibot will completely break whenever {T95686} is used, as it caches the
property datatype
[[https://github.com/wikimedia/pywikibot-core/blob/85626e/pywikibot/site.py#L6579
| for one year]], and has done that since April 2013 {6ea6d333}.
The simple workaround, e.g. for people using old versions of pywikibot, is to
delete the apicache each time a property datatype changes, but that isnt a
user-friendly solution.
Changes that could mean Pywikibot is less impacted by this:
Pywikibot could force a cache refresh more regularly.
Ideally we detect that a property has a new datatype, and clear the relevant
cache entry.
Also, Pywikibot can eliminate the reliance on `getPropertyType`, as many code
paths already have the properties datatype from when the entity was loaded,
e.g. via `wbgetentities`. If `getPropertyType` is only used infrequently, the
caching can be eliminated.
TASK DETAIL
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115679
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