On 18.02.2013, 18:57 Brad wrote: > On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 7:24 AM, Yuri Astrakhan <[email protected]> > wrote: >> How useful would it be for Lua to access to the query/content/parser API be? >> >> I am suspecting there could be a lot of creative usages of this, including >> getting data from the wikidata (which won't have to do anything special to >> enable this)
> Personally, I'd be extremely wary of allowing Lua (which is run in the > middle of the page parse, remember) to be issuing HTTP requests on WMF > sites. Especially after seeing how slow using ForeignAPIRepo for file > accesses makes my local test wiki.[1] No HTTP access is needed, however, this changes nothing: allowing API calls from Lua opens such a nice can of worms that we don't want to do it at the same time as Lua rollout, too much fun. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
