On Thu Feb 28 15:33:34 2013, exobuzz wrote:
Show quoted text> On Thu Feb 28 15:21:15 2013, johnnyd wrote:
> > Currently two features which I personally find relatively major are
> > unsupported. One is the entire functionality of
> >
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Properties
> > for things like retrieving page histories (revisions), and another,
> >
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Recentchanges
> > the log info value value of rcprop.
> > It could just be that I couldn't find this information in the
> > documentation, but trying to retrieve properties results in a crash
> > when the value is called and trying to retrieve log information
just
Show quoted text> > results in the generic use of undefined variable.
> >
> > I don't know if get_page() has a way to retrieve past revision
data,
Show quoted text> > either, but with support of property queries it can be done without
> > that function on a more manual level
>
> I don't think you have understood how to use the module.
>
> MediaWiki::API is a low level interface - it supports all of the API,
> you have to construct the call yourself using the API command.
>
> get_page is a very simply basic higher level call that uses the API
call
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> $self->api( { action => 'query', prop => 'revisions', titles => "Some
> Title", rvprop => 'ids|flags|timestamp|user|comment|size|
content' } ) );
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> its really just there as a shortcut. If you want an easier to use
> extension that has a higher level interface to the api you could look
at
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I'm really sorry for wasting your time.
'block' => {
'expiry' =>
'2013-03-02T06:38:01Z',
'flags' =>
'anononly,nocreate',
'duration'
=> '31 hours'
},
and should be swiftly beaten for not using Data::Dumper sooner. I tried
a few variables to see where it was but obviously didn't try hard
enough, I was thinking more along the lines of $rc->{expiry}. Thanks a
lot for your help and the module in general.
