Bug #45993 for MediaWiki-API: please use JSON instead of JSON::XP

Tue May 12 09:50:29 2009 hippytrail [...] gmail.com - Ticket created

Subject:	please use JSON instead of JSON::XP
Date:	Tue, 12 May 2009 08:50:02 -0500
To:	bug-MediaWiki-API [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	Andrew Dunbar <hippytrail [...] gmail.com>

The JSON module is pure Perl and compatible with JSON::XP. It uses JSON::XP when available and uses the pure Perl implementation when it's not. On the WikiMedia Toolserver JSON::XP is not currently installed. I edited MediaWiki::API.pm to use JSON instead of JSON::XP and now it works great. Please make it standard. Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail)

Tue May 12 14:55:05 2009 buzz [...] exotica.org.uk - Correspondence added

On Tue May 12 09:50:29 2009, hippytrail@gmail.com wrote: Show quoted text

> On the WikiMedia Toolserver JSON::XP is not currently installed. I > edited MediaWiki::API.pm to use JSON instead of JSON::XP and now it > works great. Please make it standard. > > Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail)

Please test this new version and let me know if it works for you. http://malus.exotica.org.uk/~buzz/cpan/MediaWiki-API-0.26.tar.gz

Tue May 12 14:55:06 2009 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Tue May 12 18:06:14 2009 hippytrail [...] gmail.com - Correspondence added

Subject:	Re: [rt.cpan.org #45993] please use JSON instead of JSON::XP
Date:	Tue, 12 May 2009 17:05:32 -0500
To:	bug-MediaWiki-API [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	Andrew Dunbar <hippytrail [...] gmail.com>

2009/5/12 Jools Smyth via RT <bug-MediaWiki-API@rt.cpan.org>: Show quoted text

> <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=45993 > > > On Tue May 12 09:50:29 2009, hippytrail@gmail.com wrote:

>> On the WikiMedia Toolserver JSON::XP is not currently installed. I >> edited MediaWiki::API.pm to use JSON instead of JSON::XP and now it >> works great. Please make it standard. >> >> Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail)

> > Please test this new version and let me know if it works for you. > > http://malus.exotica.org.uk/~buzz/cpan/MediaWiki-API-0.26.tar.gz

Yes that one works thanks! I had found a much worse bug which made it die on windows if it recieved gzipped data. It worked fine if I forced it to send unzipped data, LWP on its own worked fine with gzipped data, and it works with gzipped data now that I've moved the project to a Toolserver shell account. If you can't reproduce that one let me know and I might be able to put some time into looking at it. Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail) -- http://wiktionarydev.leuksman.com http://linguaphile.sf.net

Sun May 17 16:37:48 2009 buzz [...] exotica.org.uk - Correspondence added

On Tue May 12 18:06:14 2009, hippytrail@gmail.com wrote: Show quoted text

> If you can't reproduce that one let me know and I might be able to put > some time into looking at it.

Please could you open a new bug report about it, and list the perl distribution you are running on windows. version 0.27 is in the upload queue and solves the JSON/JSON::XP issue. I'm closing this bug now. Thanks for your help.

Sun May 17 16:37:54 2009 buzz [...] exotica.org.uk - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'