| mobrovac added a comment. |
In T212189#4837768, @daniel wrote:But for the case at hand, there might be a workaround: the PHP code that renders the (Wikibase Entity) page content already knows what data will be needed for the rendering. It can send it to the rendering service along with the request to render. The vue.js code would then need to have a "fake repo request" facility that would just use data that was passed in with the original request, and would fail (or at least warn) when trying to load any additional content by calling the actual MediaWiki API. I think that solution would still be fairly clean, and would perform better than calling back to the MediaWiki API all the time.
When rendering the page, index.php knows the exact data that needs to be rendered already, correct? If so, it can send that to the client, and then based on whether JS/SW is available or not, the client either renders it or sends a request to the service which sits behind Varnish. Or am I missing something.
Thinking further into the future, the dilemma could perhaps also be solved by separating MediaWiki's storage layout entirely from the application layer; this way PHP and JS code can use the same storage layer API for retrieving page content. But this is just a thought for the future - it woudl take a while, and I'm not even sure it's a good idea.
Somewhat OT for this task, but I would actually argue that the democratisation of the storage layer is a good thing, as it allows different entities to focus on wht they are supposed to achieve. Naturally, this implies the storage solution is scalable, secure, etc.
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