MediaWiki Stakeholders Group - Components

Common Web APIs for MediaWiki

Provides various web APIs (Action API and REST).

This code is meant to be executed within the MediaWiki application context. No standalone usage is intended.

Compatibility

• 3.0.x -> MediaWiki 1.43
• 2.0.x -> MediaWiki 1.39
• 1.0.x -> MediaWiki 1.35

Prerequisites

Use in a MediaWiki extension

Require this component in the composer.json of your extension:

{
	"require": {
		"mwstake/mediawiki-component-commonwebapis": "~2"
	}
}

Getting the available endpoints

$endpoints = MediaWikiServices::getInstance()->getService( 'MWStakeCommonWebAPIs' )->getAvailableEndpoints();

will yield a list of all registered endpoints as well as their REST path configuration

Clientside abstraction

To make it easier to access these endpoints from JS, an abstraction is implemented.

To enable it, load RL module ext.mws.commonwebapis and use it like this:

mw.loader.using( 'ext.mws.commonwebapis' ).then( function () {
	mws.commonwebapi.user.query( {
		query: 'MyUser'
	} );
} );

REST API

Filtering

In order to specify filters, you can use the filter parameter. It is an JSON-encoded array of objects. Each object has the following properties:

• property - The field to filter on
• value - The value to filter on
• operator - The operator to use for the filter. Possible values are eq (equals), neq (not equals), lt (less than), lte (less than or equal), gt (greater than), gte (greater than or equal), like (like), nlike (not like), in (in), nin (not in), isnull (is null), isnotnull (is not null), between (between), nbetween (not between), ilike (case insensitive like), nilike (case insensitive not like), regexp (regular expression), nregexp (not regular expression). Depending on the type of the filter, some operators might not be available.
• type - The type of the value. Possible values are string, integer, float, boolean, list

Sorting

In order to specify sorting, you can use the sort parameter. It is an JSON-encoded array of objects. Each object has the following properties:

• property - The field to sort on
• direction - The direction to sort. Possible values are asc (ascending) and desc (descending)

Example

mw.loader.using( 'ext.mws.commonwebapis' ).then( function () {
	mws.commonwebapi.user.query( {
		filter: JSON.stringify( [
			{
				field: 'user_name',
				value: 'MyUser',
				operator: 'eq',
				type: 'string'
			}
		] ),
		sort: JSON.stringify( [
			{
				field: 'user_name',
				direction: 'asc'
			}
		] )
	} );
} );