https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39936

--- Comment #13 from Roan Kattouw <[email protected]> 2012-10-02 02:24:56 
UTC ---
(In reply to comment #12)
> It would be far better to throw an error if the request is out of limit and
> there is no way to survive a data loss. Perhaps this could be marked in the
> getAllowedParams as "changes to this list is fatal".
> 
> 'values' => array(
>     ApiBase::PARAM_TYPE => 'string',
>     ApiBase::PARAM_ISMULTI => true,
>     ApiBase::PARAM_NOTRUNC => true,
> ),
That seems reasonable to me. Returning less data than requested in action=query
because something got cut off is fine (and that behavior should be kept), but
if you have a module where truncation would be catastrophic, then telling the
validator to error out rather than truncating is a good idea.

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