*The same way you parse any other API response? Possibly something like
 my @extensions = map $_->{'ext'}, @{$x->{query}{fileextensions}}
will do it.*


Thank you so much, it works now. The code is:

*sub get_file_extensions {
        mw_connect_maybe();

        my $query = {
        action => 'query',
        meta => 'siteinfo',
        siprop => 'fileextensions'
        };

        my $result = $mediawiki->api($query);
        my @file_extensions= map
$_->{ext},@{$result->{query}->{fileextensions}};

        return @file_extensions;
}
*

Best regards.












On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Brad Jorsch
<b-jor...@alum.northwestern.edu>wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 11:36:35AM +0200, nguyenkim thuat wrote:
> > Yeah, but, how can i do it,
> > i think of doing some thing like:
> >
> > *sub get_file_extensions {
> >     mw_connect_maybe();
> >     my $query = {
> >     action => 'query',
> >     meta => 'siteinfo',
> >     siprop => 'fileextensions'
> >     };
> >    my $result = $mediawiki->api($query);
> >
> >   ##### how to get the array of file extensions here?
> >
> >
> > }
>
> The same way you parse any other API response? Possibly something like
>  my @extensions = map $_->{'ext'}, @{$x->{query}{fileextensions}}
> will do it.
>
> At worst, use Data::Dumper, print Dumper($result), and look at it to
> figure out what type of data structure it is.
>
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