i have built a simple mockup file in salilpa.com/wiki. here i have implemented the Opensearch <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Opensearch> method. it has a simple form structure and on click opens a new tab with the results.
i could not ajaxify the request because of the restriction Origin http://salilpa.com is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin. i have used jquery and plan to use it extensively once the code is hosted on wiki server expecting valuable comments Salil P A On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:04 PM, Krinkle <krinklem...@gmail.com> wrote: > Because of that an API Sandbox may be able to be created completely > client side. > > The extension would contain a little bit of php to load the modules > and pass > interface messages, declare the .i18n files and the rest could be > an OOP JavaScript module using jQuery (which is in core now) to do .post > /get/ajax/getJSON and UI elements (jQuery UI). > > I'm not saying we should do it completely client side, simply because > we can. > But if there's no need for a new API module etc. that would be nice :-) > > To save some generation time, the basic html structure should probably > be > built server-side through subclassing SpecialPage. > > -- > Krinkle > > Op 28 mrt 2011, om 18:43 heeft Roan Kattouw het volgende geschreven: > > > 2011/3/28 Bryan Tong Minh <bryan.tongm...@gmail.com>: > >> That would be the best way to go. You really don't want to do this > >> manually. Every API modules has a function getFinalParamDescription() > >> which will give you the parameter description, including the defaults > >> and the variable type. Best look at ApiBase::makeHelpMsgParameters() > >> how this is handled by the documentation generator. > >> > > I said this on IRC but I'll repeat it here: the API exposes the data > > from getFinalParamDescription() and friends through action=paraminfo. > > > > Roan Kattouw (Catrope) > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
