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This is one of the weirdest cases I've done. PHP doesn't distinguish between
array and associative arrays when they are empty and there is no way to send
this information around in php while in python they are completely different
objects (lists and dictionaries). The reason that wbgetentity API module and
the dumpers return {} instead of [] is because these containers are not passed
around empty, they contain hidden elements that you can see when you change the
formatting to xml (and for whatever reason, mediawiki needs to support xml
output forever and beyond) but when they are turned to json, the hidden
elements get stripped away but json knows it's a associative array.
What I did was that I just told ResultBuilder for Special:EntityData to add
metadata (while they get removed in final output anyway). That would fix the
issue we are dealing now. It's behind a config variable.
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