https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42888
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Bug ID: 42888
Summary: Some API queries uses asterisk as object key
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: API
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
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For example
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&format=jsonfm&rvprop=content&generator=random
Bug 21922 has another example
the * key of the revisions object makes it impossible to use the dot notation
to access its properties from Javascript, e.g. revisions.* -- one has to resort
to ["*"] instead.
This is not a big deal, of course, but using a different character would make
both access methods available. For example, $ or _ ( see
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1661197/valid-characters-for-javascript-variable-names
) are valid variable names in javascript, and they would enable usage of
revisions.$ instead of revisions['*']
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