The real name isn't actually an option, it's a field in the user table. Special:Preferences handles it specially.
Your API command does correctly set a "realname" option, and it can be fetched using api.php?format=jsonfm&action=query&meta=userinfo&uiprop=options, but as you've noted that doesn't affect the realname field in the user table (and therefore anything else that actually uses the realname). On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Aran <a...@organicdesign.co.nz> wrote: > My command was: > > action => 'options', > token => $token, > format => 'xml', > change => 'realname=Foo Bar' > > Which resulted in success but did nothing. > > > On 10/10/13 06:22, Andre Klapper wrote: >> Hi Aran, >> >> On Wed, 2013-10-09 at 16:53 -0300, Aran wrote: >>> I'm trying to set a user's "realname" option on a local wiki (1.21.1) >>> using the API. I can login successfully, confirm my login token fine and >>> then I can get the options token and make the call to change options >>> using the token. >>> >>> I get "Success" returned when I change the realname (or any other valid >>> option such as password etc). But when I look in the user's preferences, >>> or directly in the user db table there's nothing changed. >> Could you provide the exact command, so somebody else could try to >> reproduce? >> >> andre >> >> (Also, for future reference, please avoid replying to other emails and >> replacing the subject line with your topic. Start a new thread instead.) > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
