On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 9:06 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 1:31 PM, Jack Phoenix <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I'm trying to build an autocompletion thingy that suggests categories > based > > on user input using the opensearch API [1]. > > > Sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:HotCat > Something like that, although not quite complicated. HotCat's current version is ~3k lines of code, my JS is ~40 lines. > How can I totally strip out the "Category:" > > part and pretend it doesn't exist and never did? > > > > Hit api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespaces to get the > localized name of the Category namespace. Or you should be safe just > removing everything up to the first colon. Yeah, probably better to avoid the extra HTTP request. In any case, I managed to solve my issue for the time being, or so I think. Defining a "response" callback and fiddling with the API-supplied data there seems to do the trick: https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=User%3AJack_Phoenix%2FAutocompleteTest&type=revision&diff=1644379&oldid=1644324 It does still feel a tad bit hacky to me, so if some JavaScript guru knows of the proper way to do this, feel free to let me know! But at least now I can safely throw out some old and icky code in favor of this new code. :) Thanks and regards, -- Jack Phoenix MediaWiki developer _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
