On 02/06/2013 11:43 AM, Brad Jorsch wrote: > On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Gabriel Wicke <gwi...@wikimedia.org> wrote: >> >> It should be possible to hide optimization details like local DB access >> vs. an actual HTTP request behind the same interface. A URL-based query >> interface can support local handlers for specific URL prefixes. > > Or the interface can just look like a function call. Which seems a > whole lot more straightforward than forcing people to encode a URL in > Lua which is then passed to PHP and decoded to determine if it should > be sent out as a remote request or looked up in the local DB. I don't know much Lua, but a function call like this does not seem to be *that* hard to use:
-- Would fetch JSON from -- http://wikidata.org/api/query/?param1=foo¶m2=bar -- if no local handler is defined and the base URL is in a whitelist jsonObject = JSONRequest("http://wikidata.org/api/query/";, { param1="foo", param2="bar" } ) No manual encoding, and URL encoding can be completely skipped if the prefix happens to match a registered local handler. An optional third parameter can pass in a table to specify the request method and other options. Gabriel _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
