On 07/01/2011 09:56, Pierre Mz wrote: > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008, Andreas Wombacher wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I would like to know whether there is somebody now working on an ask >> api. I need such an api and if there is no one working on it would > >> consider doing it myself. >> If you are already working on it, is there maybe a possibility to get a >> pre-view ;-) >> >> best regards >> Andreas > > Hi, > Although this topic is nearly 3 year old, I still did not find any API > for executing SMW query. > > I do not know if I am missing something, but as I needed such API too, > I created the extension SMWAskAPI ( > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SMWAskAPI ), > > that extends the regular mediawiki API by adding a 'ask' action. It is > pretty basic for now but one can make a regular #ask query and specify > printouts to display. > > I have been surprised to see how few people were looking for this > feature in SMW, so maybe there is another simple way to achieve it > that I missed? Can anyone tell me about it?
I suppose that people are currently simply forging the GET URLs for Special:Ask to execute queries. The encoding is slightly queer due to the restrictions on symbols in URLs but in the end all you need to do is to write the parameters that you would give to #ask (without line breaks), and replace some symbols by escape sequences. You can see it in action by looking at any "further results" link. The motivation for this peculiar encoding is that these strings are allowed as URLs but do also work as URIs in RDF/XML serialisations (XML imposes some additional constraints since URIs may be referred to in element names). In the future, we may offer a more standard query API using SPARQL (as part of the planned RDF store support). You can already get this using some of the existing RDF store extensions and the query API of that store (of course, this is not quite the same as #ask regarding the query model and the formatting options). Some integration into the MediaWiki API might be nice to have in any case. Regards Markus > > Also, I would appreciate feedback about this extension, if someone tries it. > > Regards, > Pierre > >> >> Sergey Chernyshev wrote: >>> No, actually, API is there for a while already, I'm using it on 1.11 and > >>> I think it was available even before that. >>> In any case, aiming at older (much older) version of MediaWiki is not a >>> very good idea - SMW itself require MediaWiki 1.11 >>> >>> On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Greenman, Ronald (NIH/CIT) [C] > >>> <greenma...@mail.nih.gov<mailto:greenma...@mail.nih.gov>> wrote: >>> > >>> The problem with that API is that extending it cleanly requires >>> MediaWiki 1.12. However, MediaWiki also has an AJAX framework that's >>> been around for a lot longer and allows for clean extensions in > >>> older versions (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Ajax). I've >>> been considering experimenting with this route. > >>> >>> Beecher Greenman >>> NIH Contractor (SRA) >>> greenma...@mail.nih.gov<mailto:greenma...@mail.nih.gov> > >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> *From:* Sergey Chernyshev >>> [mailto:semediawiki-de...@antispam.sergeychernyshev.com > >>> <mailto:semediawiki-de...@antispam.sergeychernyshev.com>] >>> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 12, 2008 11:21 PM > >>> *To:* Andreas Wombacher >>> *Cc:* semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >>> <mailto:semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> > >>> *Subject:* Re: [SMW-devel] semantic wiki query AJAX api >>> >>> I'm interested in this feature too. Actually I was researching >>> MediaWiki API (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API) and it seams to be > >>> quite simple to extend for ask query implementation. >>> >>> Sergey >>> >>> >>> On Feb 12, 2008 6:45 AM, Andreas Wombacher<a.wombac...@utwente.nl > >>> <mailto:a.wombac...@utwente.nl>> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am wondering whether there is an API for building richer > >>> clients using >>> semantic annotations of the wiki via an XML RPC or REST or any >>> other kind of API which copuld be facilitated using AJAX? >>> >>> best regards > >>> Andreas >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft >>> Defy all challenges. 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