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@Joe said:
the SSR service should not need to call the mediawiki api. It should accept all the information needed to render the termbox in the call from mediawiki.
After talking to the Wikidta folks, I realized that this is not easy at all. It requires the callingg code to know what data is needed, and that depends on implementation details buried in several places of the rendering code, possibly different for entity types defined by different extensions, etc. For the term box alone, "send the entity" will work. For rendering more (e.g. all the statements), this will not work.
@Milimetric said:
I was saying directly routed to SSR service as in, without ever hitting mediawiki and spinning up the mediawiki context.That doesn't work, the goal is to deliver a full page to the client, with all the skin chrome. This is for index.php serving a full page.
So, overall, it seems like the solution proposed by the Wikidata team is the only one viable at this time. Doing It Right (tm) would require MediaWiki to have either the presentation layer or the storage layer split off. That'll have to wait a couple of years.
The one viable improvement that was raised would require ESI (or a similar mechanism): the call to index.php would return HHTML that contains a placeholder for the termbox, which would be resolved in the edge by a callback to the SSR service, which could then call back to MediaWiki as needed, without a circular dependency.
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