On 04/10/12 03:18, Daniel Friesen wrote: > sajax is an ancient ajax library, it's part of our legacy code. And it > still gets to sneak a license note into our README. > > It's probably about time that we start making sure that code is ready > for the day it disappears. Just as code shouldn't be relying on bits > and pieces of wikibits. > > Currently the only parts of core that depend on sajax are the legacy > mwsuggest and upload.js. > mwsuggest is going to disappear when Krinkle's work making > simplesearch's suggestions work universally is finished. > I'm not sure what's going on with upload.js. > > The real problem however is extensions. For some reason it appears > that we STILL have extensions depending on sajax. And I'm not talking > about ancient extensions on the wiki or in svn. I only did an ack > through stuff that's currently in git. > > So I welcome anyone who is interested in going through extension code > and eliminating the use of sajax in favor of jQuery.ajax and RL.
It's a fair bit easier to implement a Sajax/AjaxDispatcher callback than it is to implement an API module, mostly because of the API's dual role as both an internal interface and a public interface for external developers. So you can see why extension developers writing internal interfaces would be hesitant to choose the API route. sajax_do_call() is only 163 lines. Why not just rewrite it to use jquery.ajax? Just because it's called sajax_do_call() doesn't mean it actually has to *be* Sajax. -- Tim Starling _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
