https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72297
Bug ID: 72297
Summary: Maintain order: Have API return and accept lists
instead of maps
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Version: master
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: major
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: WikidataRepo
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
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The structures returned by the API are optimized for "raw" API usage (e.g. via
Bots). Statements grouped by property as well as qualifiers and reference snaks
are returned as maps. While there are awkward "qualifiers-order" and
"snaks-order" attributes for qualifiers and reference snaks, there is no way to
determine the order of statements via the API. Consequently, no reliable
mechanism to manually order statements can be implemented.
Instead of having to apply complex logic evaluating special attributes like
"qualifiers-order" and "snaks-order", there should be a way to retrieve
natively ordered structures from the API.
The proposal is to provide a flag that, when submitted to API modules, will
make lists instead of maps getting returned.
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