Currently, wbsearchentities always returns the full URL for each matched entity. Determining the URL is potentially expensive, and not always needed, so it should be optional (and perhaps off per default).
A parameter could be added to getAllowedParams, perhaps called props. Its default value would be an empty array, one possible value would be "url".
The URL is added to the result by $title->getFullUrl(). This should only be called if "url" is in the list of requested props.
This should be a very easy change, potentially we could add a props param, defaults to nothing and currently the only option would be "url".
Any movement here would class as a breaking change and thus once the patch is prepared would need to be announce accordingly etc.
Change 258679 had a related patch set uploaded (by PranavK):
Wikidata: wbsearchentities: Make returning the entity URL optional
Change 258967 had a related patch set uploaded (by PranavK):
wbsearchentities: Make returning the entity URL optinal
Change 258679 abandoned by PranavK:
Wikidata: wbsearchentities: Make returning the entity URL optional
Reason:
wrong repo, superseded by https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/258967/
Change 258967 abandoned by Addshore:
wbsearchentities: Make returning the entity URL optional
Reason:
abandoned GCI 2015 task
Change 364623 had a related patch set uploaded (by AnotherLadsgroup; owner: Amir Sarabadani):
[mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase@master] Add props parameter to SearchEntities API module
Change 364623 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase@master] Add props parameter to SearchEntities API module