ApiMain (and also api.php) tries to catch any Exception so as to provide a properly-formatted error message to the client instead of an HTML error page.
With PHP 7.0, some cases that produce an Exception in HHVM instead produce an Error. The API code should catch these too.
| Subject | Repo | Branch | Lines +/- | |
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| API: Catch Errors as well as Exceptions | mediawiki/core | master | +29 -13 |
Change 454302 had a related patch set uploaded (by Anomie; owner: Anomie):
[mediawiki/core@master] API: Catch Errors as well as Exceptions
Change 454302 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/core@master] API: Catch Errors as well as Exceptions