The time you obtained the edit token has nothing to do with the uniqueness of the token, or the effective life time of the token.
I believe starttimestamp is just any edit after this point is a conflict, where base timestamp should match the timestamp of the base revision. Thus the difference between them is you give them different values. -bawolff On Jan 22, 2014 7:52 AM, "Petr Bena" <benap...@gmail.com> wrote: > > In documentation I see: > > basetimestamp: Timestamp of the base revision (obtained through > prop=revisions&rvprop=timestamp). Used to detect edit conflicts; leave > unset to ignore conflicts > starttimestamp: Timestamp when you obtained the edit token. Used to > detect edit conflicts; leave unset to ignore conflicts > > What is difference between these two? Documentation say that there is > only 1 edit token which is changed only when user log out / log back. > However that makes no sense when description of starttimestamp tell > something about "Timestamp of token". > > Is there really only 1 edit token? Is it really same for all pages? > Does it really change only when user relog? How does it change for IP > users? > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Brian Wolff <bawo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Jan 22, 2014 7:41 AM, "Petr Bena" <benap...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> The title pretty much say what I need > >> > >> 1) Retrieve the page - page must not be changed starts NOW > >> 2) Do something what requires user input, possibly may last few minutes > >> 3) Save the page ONLY if it wasn't changed, if it was, go back to step 1 > >> > >> this all needs to be done using API, I thought that edit token would > >> help me here, so that I would fetch the token at step 1 and edit using > >> it at step 3, hoping it expire if someone edit the page meanwhile. But > >> this doesn't seem to work according to documentation, because edit > >> token is only changed when user logout. > >> > >> Is there any super-safe and proper method to do this? Preferably > >> something more reliable than just storing the timestamp and comparing > >> it (in theory someone could edit the page even in short time when > >> timestamp is compared). I need some super-safe lock that prevent all > >> possible race conditions here. > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wikitech-l mailing list > >> Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > > Starttimestamp and basetimestamp? > > > > -bawolff > > _______________________________________________ > > 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
