On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Brian Gerstle bgers...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
mainpage field is omitted when querying Barack Obama
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox#action=mobileviewformat=jsonpage=Barack_Obamaprop=pagepropspageprops=mainpage
:
{
mobileview: {
That's pretty normal (but admittedly confusing). For example, if you do a
query for a page property, it will return empty string for true and nothing
for false (which both evaluate to false in PHP):
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=querytitles=Bugprop=pagepropsppprop=disambiguation
Feel free to reopen the declined bug:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T15299
I've always supported making our API more intuitive, but every bug I file
about it gets declined :(
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Brian Gerstle bgers...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
For example:
mainpage field is
On 05/28/2015 02:58 PM, Brian Gerstle wrote:
Is this the desired behavior?
Yes-ish. It's a leftover from when XML was the primary API format. If
you pass formatversion=2 in the request, you'll get proper booleans (as
well as other improvements).
I re-closed
For example:
mainpage field is omitted when querying Barack Obama
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox#action=mobileviewformat=jsonpage=Barack_Obamaprop=pagepropspageprops=mainpage
:
{
mobileview: {
pageprops: [],
sections: []
}
}
But, it's present
Guess I shouldn't be so quick to complain ;) Thanks Anomie and others for
finally fixing that 7-year-old bug!
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 4:17 PM, Legoktm legoktm.wikipe...@gmail.com
wrote:
On 05/28/2015 02:58 PM, Brian Gerstle wrote:
Is this the desired behavior?
Yes-ish. It's a leftover from
