On 06/08/14 14:32, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) wrote:
> When api.php was basically the only API in MediaWiki, calling it "the
> API" worked well. But now we've got a Parsoid API, Gabriel's work on a
> REST content API, Gabriel's work on an internal storage API, and more
> on the way. So just saying "the API" is getting confusing.
> 
> So let's bikeshed a reasonably short name for it that isn't something
> awful like "the api.php API". I'm horrible at naming.

How about "the action API"? The fact that it is organised in a
hierarchy of actions distinguishes it from REST, which is organised as
a hierarchy of objects. The term "action" also distinguishes it from RPC.

-- Tim Starling


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