On 27.11.2012 17:10, Denny Vrandečić wrote: > Today a question appeared: what to do if an edit is request that actually does > not change the content (e.g. setting the sitelink of an item to X when it is > already X in the language). > > Currently, the API reports an error because the save failed (there is nothing > to > save, obviously). If you try the same on MediaWiki core, it behaves as if > everything went well, but doesn't do a save (i.e. the save does not happen, > but > the state is the same and thus the software just lets you proceed as if you > have > made the edit).
It should do nothing, report success, but include a warning that nothing was done. lastrevid should contain the latest revision ID. I'm not sure why the API would report an error in such a case. It shouldn't really, and I thought I looked at the test case for this recently. EditEntity at least supports it, as far as I know. -- daniel -- Daniel Kinzler, Softwarearchitekt Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
