Selective use of formatversion=2
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	Dec 13 2015, 4:19 AM

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API formatversion=2 (available as of mw 1.25) gives us good things like proper booleans. We like good things.

It may not be completely stable but we can selectively enable it for specific tasks.

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	Project	Branch	Lines +/-	Subject
	pywikibot/core	master	+42 -5	[IMPR] Use API formatversion 2 with userinfo

Customize query in gerrit

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Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
Open	Release	None	T308258 Pywikibot 8 tasks (Tracking)
Open	Feature	None	T121334 Selective use of formatversion=2
Resolved	Release	Xqt	T306637 Drop support for MediaWiki < 1.27
Open		None	T343204 Drop rawcontinue and continue query parameter

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Sn1per created this task.Dec 13 2015, 4:19 AM

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Sn1per triaged this task as Low priority.Dec 13 2015, 4:23 AM

First step is detecting whether it is available.

It will be most suitable where compatibility with old MediaWiki versions is not needed; otherwise we need code to support v1 responses and alternative code to support v2 responses, or some voodoo somewhere to make v1 look like v2.

Sn1per removed a parent task: T121323: Page generator that filters subpages.Dec 13 2015, 4:27 AM

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Sn1per removed Sn1per as the assignee of this task.Aug 25 2017, 11:25 PM

Seems formatversion is not officially propagated. A lot of API documentation still describes the "old" format [1] or the new usage is not documented [2]. Is there any timeline for a switch?
To support formatversion 2 I propose to give up support of MediaWiki 1.23-1.26 and start support with the next LTS 1.27 (perhaps with Pywikibot 8)

[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:RecentChanges#Python for example
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API_talk:Revisions#Omissions_in_Documentation

Xqt changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Feature Request".Apr 21 2022, 2:40 PM

Xqt mentioned this in T306637: Drop support for MediaWiki < 1.27.Apr 21 2022, 3:49 PM

Xqt added a subtask: T306637: Drop support for MediaWiki < 1.27.Apr 21 2022, 4:00 PM

Xqt moved this task from Backlog to Next main release on the Pywikibot board.Apr 25 2022, 8:02 AM

Xqt added a parent task: T308258: Pywikibot 8 tasks (Tracking).May 12 2022, 4:18 PM

Change 840161 had a related patch set uploaded (by Xqt; author: Xqt):

[pywikibot/core@master] [IMPR] Use API formatversion 2 with userinfo

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/840161

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Oct 7 2022, 3:15 PM

Change 840161 merged by jenkins-bot:

[pywikibot/core@master] [IMPR] Use API formatversion 2 with userinfo