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| Project | Branch | Lines +/- | Subject | |
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| operations/mediawiki-config | master | +129 -0 | Add Flow dumps schema | |
| mediawiki/extensions/Flow | master | +143 -5 | Flow dumps XSD schema |
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
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| Resolved | Mooeypoo | T108266 Opt-in: Guided tour on user talk for first visit to new Flow board | |||
| Resolved | SBisson | T98270 Opt-in for Flow on your own user talk page | |||
| Resolved | matthiasmullie | T89398 Add Flow to database dumps | |||
| Resolved | matthiasmullie | T112799 Create XML Schema for Flow dump format(s) |
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This should be in the schema along with everything else we produce, and the version updated.
I think Flow stuff should preferably not be in the core schema, since Flow is not part of core and there is a separate script for exporting Flow (Flow/maintenance/dumpBackup.php).
Change 275843 had a related patch set uploaded (by Matthias Mullie):
Flow dumps XSD schema
Patch in gerrit. Writings XSDs is not something I do every day, please review carefully and provide abundant feedback :)
As Brion pointed out in review: do we need the schema?
We don't *really* need it, so do we want the validation badly enough ourselves that we want to maintain this?
In other words: does anyone object to not having the schema?
We don't *really* need it, so do we want the validation badly enough ourselves that we want to maintain this?
How will I know how to write code that processes the dump? Currently, I use the export XML schema to program against the MediaWiki XML dumps. See https://www.mediawiki.org/xml/export-0.10.xsd
If you want to describe these schema in some form other than XML schema, I think that is fine, but I don't think it is a good idea to produce a dump with no description of what it contains and what fields are required/repeatable.
In addition to validation, XSDs can also be used for code generation. We should probably do it.
Alright let's get this merged then.
Where will we put the schema/namespace (xmlns & xsi:schemaLocation)?
I guess the most straightforward is docroot/mediawiki/xml/Flow in operations/mediawiki-config.
That would then correspond to mediawiki.org/xml/Flow as you'd expect. I guess docroot/mediawiki/xml/flow might be better.
I would expect lowercase , not uppercase. It is case sensitive, and I can't recall the last time I've encountered caps in a namespace.
Change 281640 had a related patch set uploaded (by Matthias Mullie):
Add Flow dumps schema
Naming seems to be like this: docroot/mediawiki/xml/project-version
That's what I've now changed the patch(es) to. I think they're ready to go.