On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 9:27 AM, Markus Kroetzsch <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > It seems that some changes have been made to the JSON serialization > recently: > > https://github.com/Wikidata/Wikidata-Toolkit/issues/237 > > Could somebody from the dev team please comment on this? Is this going to be > in the dumps as well or just in the API? Are further changes coming up? Are > we ever going to get email notifications of API changes implemented by the > team rather than having to fix the damage after they happened?
Hey Markus, Sorry. You are right in that I should have announced the addition. It slipped through. As we've said before we don't consider adding fields a breaking change. Nonetheless I should have announced it. For your particular usecase it seems the addition is actually useful because the entity id no longer needs to be created from the entity type and ID field. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5455014/ignoring-new-fields-on-json-objects-using-jackson might also be helpful. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
