Can't we raise an error if basetimestamp is not a Timestamp, or is 0 or empty? So we might understand in which cases it still happens?
On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 9:28 PM, John Mark Vandenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > 'Pywikibot' has this problem. The results dont show which version is doing > it. > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Brad Jorsch (Anomie)" <[email protected]> > Date: 30 Jan 2016 6:06 am > Subject: [Wikitech-l] *unclear-"now"-timestamp* (was Re: Bot operators: > Please check your configuration) > To: "Wikimedia developers" <[email protected]>, "MediaWiki > API announcements & discussion" <[email protected]> > Cc: > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 1:41 PM, Bináris <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > 2016-01-29 18:56 GMT+01:00 Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <[email protected] >> >: >> > >> > > by going to >> > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:ApiFeatureUsage, entering your >> > > agent >> > > (or any useful prefix of it), and looking for "https-expected". >> > > >> > >> > What does *unclear-"now"-timestamp* mean here? >> > >> >> For various API timestamp-typed parameters, you can pass unusual values >> such as the empty string or "0" and it will be interpreted as meaning >> "now", which doesn't make very much sense except for the fact that it has >> always done that. If you really mean "now", you should pass that as the >> value instead. >> >> action=edit even has to hack around this to avoid spurious edit conflicts >> if you do it for the 'basetimestamp' parameter. Ideally we'd make empty >> string and '0' be rejected as invalid timestamps, but first people have to >> stop passing them in. >> >> >> -- >> Brad Jorsch (Anomie) >> Senior Software Engineer >> Wikimedia Foundation >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > _______________________________________________ > pywikibot mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikibot > >
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