On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Ian Baker <[email protected]> wrote:

> I've made a minor API change ApiUpload, for stashed files.  It's not a
> commonly used API and the change shouldn't break anything external, but I
> figured I should post just in case.
>
> Temporarily stashed files now have their metadata stored in the database
> instead of the session.  This allows for some future feature expansion with
> regard to the image review and categorization process, and works around a
> memcached race condition that was preventing simultaneous uploads from
> working (see bug 26179<
> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26179>
> )
>
> The actual change to the API is pretty simple.  First, the 'sessionkey'
> parameter has been superseded by 'filekey', though 'sessionkey' remains for
> compatibility.


Seems to me like this doesn't need any client-visible changes; any objection
to just leaving it labeled as is? It's a key to an 'upload session', so I
wouldn't assume it has any specific relationship to HTTP session cookies...

-- brion
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