On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Brian Gerstle <[email protected]> wrote:
> > "mainpage" field is omitted when querying Barack Obama > < > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox#action=mobileview&format=json&page=Barack_Obama&prop=pageprops&pageprops=mainpage > > > : > > > { > > "mobileview": { > > "pageprops": [], > > "sections": [] > > } > > } > API results often omit return parameters that have their default value in order to save space. Legoktm wrote: If you pass formatversion=2 in the request, you'll get proper booleans (as > well as other improvements). > Well, after API modules are changed to return booleans (which are turned into empty string for backwards compatibility if you don't specify formatversion=2). Legoktm fixed ApiMobileView.php with https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/214636/ last night : $resultObj->addValue( null, $moduleName, * // was: array( 'mainpage' => '' )* array( 'mainpage' => true ) ); so specifying formatversion=2 now gets you the boolean behavior on beta labs, and soon on enwiki. http://en.wikipedia.*beta.wmflabs* .org/w/api.php?action=mobileview&format=jsonfm&page=Main_Page&pageprops=mainpage& *formatversion=2* <http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/w/api.php?action=mobileview&format=jsonfm&page=Main_Page&pageprops=mainpage&formatversion=2 works:> returns: { "mobileview": { "normalizedtitle": "Main Page", "mainpage": true, "sections": [... If you're writing an extension for the WMF cluster or 1.26 only, you should always use formatversion=2 (with the proviso that some API modules may change). It gives you cleaner return values and defaults to utf8 instead of ascii with unicode escape sequences. More at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:JSON_version_2#Using_the_new_JSON_results_format Cheers, -- =S Page WMF Tech writer _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
