The mw.loadData() Lua method should recognize JSON data
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	Jul 28 2015, 12:20 AM

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If the mw.loadData() tries to access a page with JSON data (content model) then it should read it in and convert it to a valid Lua structure.

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It could be that the method already does this, and I have messed up. :)

We already have mw.text.jsonDecode to decode JSON.

This is about loading and decoding json. It is possible to get to JSON data by using frame:expandTemplate but this is not efficient in these cases and is sort of hackish.

Use mw.title.new('whatever'):getContent() to get the text in a non-hacky way.

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