Hi,
The QA team has been experimenting with using the MW API to facilitate
some of the setup for browser tests. It started with a proof of concept
patch written by Jeff Hall (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/106548/).
The patch is now abandoned and the idea is to develop a Ruby gem for
interacting with the API.
As Jeff told me, Zeljko started working on it at
https://github.com/zeljkofilipin/mediawiki_ruby_api_client
Since the library is in a very early stage as of now, I decided to also
take a stab at it yesterday and would present a slightly different, more
Rubyish and OO-oriented, approach. You can find it here:
https://github.com/jgonera/mediawiki-api
It's just a quick prototype, still requires some cleanup. At the moment
it is capable only of creating articles, just as Jeff's and Zeljko's
prototypes. It, however, persists the login information so that you can
create several pages without repeating the login process. It's only a
simple example of a benefit of taking a more OO approach. Other benefits
will be even more obvious if we continue developing it.
It also contains some unit tests in RSpec. Ideally, I would envision a
gem like this to be something useful not only in our browser tests, but
also for authors of bots and other tools. It would be great if people
from outside of the foundation found it useful and could help in
developing it.
Some other decisions in my prototype:
* Use Faraday (https://github.com/lostisland/faraday) instead of
RestClient. It's also very popular and supports different backends.
While this might not be useful for us now, we get it for free and
someone might use a more concurrent EventMachine backend in future.
Faraday also has a concept of middleware, which for example gives us
cookie management for free too.
* Use WebMock (https://github.com/bblimke/webmock) for unit tests.
Faraday has it's own stubbing mechanism, but it's much less powerful.
Let me know what you think. I'd really like us to work on this together.
--
Juliusz
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