Am 05.04.20 um 23:18 schrieb Petr Bena: > But still, I am curious what is the recommended approach for someone > who wants to develop their application "properly" in a way that it's > backward compatible? First query the MediaWiki version via API, and > based on that decide how to call APIs? I can't think of any other way.
Yes, that's indeed the only way if the client is to be entirely generic. Though deprecated API behavior tends to stay supported for quite a while, much longer than deprecated PHP methods. So checking the MediaWiki version first would only be needed if you wanted your code to work with a wide range of MediaWiki versions. Also, most clients are not totally agnostic to the wiki they run against. E.g. pywikibot has per-wiki configuration, which could easily include the wiki version. So no query would be necessary. Similarly, JS code running on the site has access to the version from JS variables. -- Daniel Kinzler Principal Software Engineer, Core Platform Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
