Hi,
On 05.09.2012 10:39, John Erling Blad wrote:
Please note that this is a breaking change for bots!
It is decided that the module wbsetitem will change from the present
"short form" in the json structure to a "long form". Exactly how the
long form will be is still a bit open, but it will be closer to the
json output format. The changes also makes it possible to use a
key-less format as the language and site id will be available inside
the long form.
The following short form will be WRONG in the future
{
"labels":{
"de":"Foo",
"en":"Bar"
}
}
Here we have the Problem, that we cannot add additional information,
like a short description or anything similar. So this is absolutely
necessary.
This long form will be RIGHT in the future
{
"labels":{
"de":{"value":"Foo","language":"de"},
"en":{"value":"Bar","language":"en"}
}
}
do you really want redundant information?
And also this will be RIGHT
{
"labels":[
{"value":"Foo","language":"de"},
{"value":"Bar","language":"en"}
]
}
Not easy browsable by using labels[lang] or labels.lang. Iterating
through different labels is needed.
so why not using:
{
labels:[
de:{value:"Foo", source:whatever_de},
en:{value:"Bar", source:whatever_en}
]
}
Here you can iterate through all items using their key and the value object:
for (key in labels) {
console.log(labels[key])
}
Marco
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