There is no such a thing like "properly break". That's like if someone was happily sad. Come on
On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <bjor...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 10:13 PM, Yuri Astrakhan <yastrak...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > >> On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 7:44 PM, John Mark Vandenberg <jay...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> > >> > The API currently emits a warning if a query continuation mode isnt >> > selected. >> > >> > I guess on July 1 the API could emit an error, and not return any query >> > data. >> > Then the data isnt going to cause weird behaviour - it will break, >> > properly. >> > >> > >> Hmm, this is actually an interesting idea - would it make sense to error on >> missing "continue" or "rawcontinue" for all action=query for about a month >> or two, so that everyone notices it right away and gets updated, and than >> resume with the new behavior? > > > I saw at least one major bot had all of its actual continuation uses fixed > after the first notification, but did not bother to fix cases where it was > receiving the warning but was never going to continue the query. Others may > well have done the same. > > For example, if a client wants to get the current content for enwiki's Main > Page, it might hit > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&rvprop=content&rvlimit=1&titles=Main%20Page. > That returns continuation (and the warning) in case the client would want > further revisions, but the client here doesn't. Similar cases could be made > for fetching the most recent protection log entry of a page, the imageinfo > for the current version of an image, and so on. > > The current plan, as shown in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/160223/, > is to output a different warning for some period of time after the > changeover. People investigating the sudden failure of their > bot/script/gadget would hopefully see that. > > > -- > Brad Jorsch (Anomie) > Software Engineer > Wikimedia Foundation > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
