I recently noticed the JSON support in Semantic MediaWiki.
Gave me interesting thoughts, as it could be a very powerful way to
connect wiki data to on-wiki JavaScript tools.
However I have to notes.
In addition to json support on Special:Ask and in #ask queries, could we
also support some sort of Special:ExportJSON. ie: Like how ExportRDF
exports single page rdf files with the semantic data, export single page
json of all the properties on that page.
Also, the json being outputted is invalid. (At least from what I get on
Wikia, I don't know about trunk):
Doing an #ask format=json on yugioh.wikia's Dark Magician for ?English
Name, ?ATK, and ?DEF gives me this.
{
properties: {
"english_name" : { valueType: "text" },
"atk" : { valueType: "number" },
"def" : { valueType: "number" }
},
items: [
{
label: "Dark Magician",
"english_name": "Dark Magician",
"atk": 2500,
"def": 2100,
"uri" : "http://yugioh.wikia.com/index.php?title=Dark Magician"
}
]
}
In JSON ALL keys MUST be wrapped with DOUBLE quotes. the properties:
valueType: items: and label: listed there are all invalid because they
are not wrapped in double quotes.
All valid JSON parsers will reject the json outputted by SMW.
Also, wouldn't it be a good idea to at least note that we're modifying
the keys that the query asked for? Something like a "normalized": {
"English Name": "english_name", "ATK": "atk", "DEF", "def" }, at the top.
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~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]
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