Jdlrobson added a comment.
> My concern is from the perspective of the core API: it has a specific contract, and it should not be used for things that do not match that contract. The contract is: "Searches wiki page titles, and returns pages with titles that begin with the provided search terms." I understand and I'm saying that this could be implemented using an abstracted PHP interface which provides a contract for the format in the response, without having any knowledge of the implementation. > The problem is that Wikibase can't really use the same spec When I mean spec, I'm referring to the output API. For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/rest.php/v1/search/title?q=Spongebob%20Squarepants%20&limit=10 responds with : { "pages": [ { "id": 2655089, "key": "SpongeBob_SquarePants", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants", "excerpt": "SpongeBob SquarePants", "description": "American animated television series", "thumbnail": { "mimetype": "image/svg+xml", "size": 25839, "width": 200, "height": 107, "duration": null, "url": "//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/22/SpongeBob_SquarePants_logo_by_Nickelodeon.svg/200px-SpongeBob_SquarePants_logo_by_Nickelodeon.svg.png" } } .. ] } If an API was created that returned data in the same format, the search UI would mostly function. { "pages": [ { "key": "Q935079", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants (Q935079)", "excerpt": "main character of the animated television show SpongeBob SquarePants", "description": null, "thumbnail": { "mimetype": "image/svg+xml", "size": 25839, "width": 200, "height": 107, "duration": null, "url": "//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/22/SpongeBob_SquarePants_logo_by_Nickelodeon.svg/200px-SpongeBob_SquarePants_logo_by_Nickelodeon.svg.png" } ] } The implementation can be completely different, living in Wikidata if necessary. Right now, we allow configuration on the host level, but if this is the direction we want to take, we can make the path configurable our side to to support this. I honestly don't see any other way to get this to work, without disabling the JavaScript search experience altogether and relying on a gadget. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T275251 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Jdlrobson Cc: darthmon_wmde, WMDE-leszek, daniel, sdkim, alexhollender, LGoto, Yair_rand, MPhamWMF, ovasileva, Addshore, Lydia_Pintscher, Aklapper, Jdlrobson, Invadibot, Selby, caldera, maantietaja, Akuckartz, Demian, WDoranWMF, holger.knust, EvanProdromou, DannyS712, Nandana, Lahi, Gq86, GoranSMilovanovic, QZanden, pmiazga, LawExplorer, Winter, JJMC89, Iniquity, _jensen, rosalieper, Agabi10, Scott_WUaS, Pchelolo, Jonas, Volker_E, Niedzielski, Izno, Wikidata-bugs, aude, GWicke, Dinoguy1000, Mbch331, Jay8g
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