* Robert Leverington <[email protected]> [Wed, 17 Nov 2010 07:38:23 +0000]: > Because it provides a consistent, clean framework for making and > handling requests with the potential to reduce duplication in a lot of > cases. The API is not just for bots. > API is supposed to be useful for another (remote) clients. Some of my ajax calls are useful only locally and only to my own extension. Why should I expose these openly.
> Adding an API module is fairly trivial and is the correct way to provide > AJAX interactivity. > In some cases it's unneeded complication, where you have to build the tables of parameter types, parameter descriptions and so on. And also expose all of that functionality in api.php help. I use both API and wgAjaxExportList[], for different purposes. I may completely switch to API, however that doesn't look nice to me. But anyway, you decide. Dmitriy _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
