| ArthurPSmith added a comment. |
>>! In T112140#2435122, @Multichill wrote:
The function should return an object. Possibilities seem to be commonsMedia, globe-coordinate, monolingualtext, quantity, string, time, url, external-id, wikibase-item, wikibase-property, math
The parse API allows a list of values to be parsed (not just one at a time), and I have written the function to return a list of the parsed "objects" in the form of just the value (for strings) or a python dict with the keys and values supplied by the wbparsevalue api. In particular, parsing a list of quantity values returns a list of dicts with the keys 'amount', 'upperBound', 'lowerBound', and possibly other keys as provided by the API (for example it returns 'unit' with value '1').
Unfortunately, some existing pywikibot classes like WbQuantity or WbTime do not work for this because they use Decimal or long/int rather than string values (however it looks like WbMonolingualText could work). I thought making that change to the classes ought to be a separate step to providing access to the parse api.
Cc: Tobias1984, ArthurPSmith, Aklapper, pywikibot-bugs-list, Multichill, Mdupont, D3r1ck01, Izno, Wikidata-bugs, aude, jayvdb, Ricordisamoa, Mbch331
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