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 parameter has been superseded by 'filekey', though 'sessionkey' remains for 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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
