Hi Mathew,
With java api I generated the json object, and edit item with a python script.
Yo can do the same procedure with the many available apis in java, python, js.
Regards
Luis
> Matthew Dowdell <mdowdell...@gmail.com> hat am 25. Februar 2020 um 00:00
> geschrieben:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I'm writing an API module that I'd like to take 'complex' data for one of
> the parameters, e.g.
>
> {
> "action": "example",
> "token": "<some csrf token>",
> "data": [
> {"key": "value1", "otherkey": "othervalue1"},
> {"key": "value2", "otherkey": "othervalue2", "optionalkey":
> "optionalvalue"},
> {"key": "value3", "otherkey": "othervalue3"}
> ]
>
> }
>
> The list in data can grow to several hundred elements all of which
> contain the same 2 keys with an optional third. For reference, I'm developing
> on mw1.31, but I can swap to something more recent if that's where new
> possibilities become available.
>
> This module takes POST requests, so I'd just send it as part of the
> request body, but when it comes to deserialising it, I'm not really sure what
> to deserialise it to as everything seems to assume primitive values, e.g.
> strings, integers, etc. when it comes to setting the parameter type. I'm not
> averse to claiming it's a string and deserialising it myself, but my attempts
> so far haven't proved successful. I also tried writing a phpunit test which
> displayed different behaviour (it seems to have quietly lost the value) and
> using the mwapi python library for an integration/end-to-end test which
> caused a third behaviour by quietly joining the elements in the list into a
> string. I get the feeling what I'm trying to do is at the very least
> non-standard for mediawiki.
>
> Does anyone have experience in trying to do this or know of prior art
> that does something similar?
>
> Cheers,
> Matt
>
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Luis Ramos
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(Semantic Web Developer)
PST.AG
Jena, Germany.
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