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incomplete conversion of flow revisions after disabling flow, breaks stubs dumps
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Seen on urwikibooks and dewikiversity

dumpsgen@snapshot1008:/srv/deployment/dumps/dumps/xmldumps-backup$ /usr/bin/php7.2 /srv/mediawiki/multiversion/MWScript.php dumpBackup.php --wiki=urwikibooks --full --stub --report=1 --output=file:/mnt/dumpsdata/temp/dumpsgen/stubs-history.xml.urwikibooks  --start=2673 --end=2674
MWUnknownContentModelException from line 267 of /srv/mediawiki/php-1.34.0-wmf.15/includes/content/ContentHandler.php: The content model 'flow-board' is not registered on this wiki.
See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_handlers to find out which extensions handle this content model.
#0 /srv/mediawiki/php-1.34.0-wmf.15/includes/export/XmlDumpWriter.php(446): ContentHandler::getForModelID('flow-board')
#1 /srv/mediawiki/php-1.34.0-wmf.15/includes/export/XmlDumpWriter.php(380): XmlDumpWriter->writeSlot(Object(MediaWiki\Revision\SlotRecord), 1)
#2 /srv/mediawiki/php-1.34.0-wmf.15/includes/export/WikiExporter.php(531): XmlDumpWriter->writeRevision(Object(stdClass), Array)
#3 /srv/mediawiki/php-1.34.0-wmf.15/includes/export/WikiExporter.php(474): WikiExporter->outputPageStreamBatch(Object(Wikimedia\Rdbms\ResultWrapper), NULL)
#4 /srv/mediawiki/php-1.34.0-wmf.15/includes/export/WikiExporter.php(288): WikiExporter->dumpPages('page_id >= 2673...', false)
#5 /srv/mediawiki/php-1.34.0-wmf.15/includes/export/WikiExporter.php(173): WikiExporter->dumpFrom('page_id >= 2673...', false)
#6 /srv/mediawiki/php-1.34.0-wmf.15/maintenance/includes/BackupDumper.php(289): WikiExporter->pagesByRange(2673, 2674, false)
#7 /srv/mediawiki/php-1.34.0-wmf.15/maintenance/dumpBackup.php(82): BackupDumper->dump(1, 1)
#8 /srv/mediawiki/php-1.34.0-wmf.15/maintenance/doMaintenance.php(99): DumpBackup->execute()
#9 /srv/mediawiki/php-1.34.0-wmf.15/maintenance/dumpBackup.php(144): require_once('/srv/mediawiki/...')
#10 /srv/mediawiki/multiversion/MWScript.php(101): require_once('/srv/mediawiki/...')
#11 {main}

and

dumpsgen@snapshot1008:/srv/deployment/dumps/dumps/xmldumps-backup$ /usr/bin/php7.2 /srv/mediawiki/multiversion/MWScript.php dumpBackup.php --wiki=dewikiversity --full --stub --report=1 --output=file:/mnt/dumpsdata/temp/dumpsgen/stubs-history.xml.dewikiversity  --start=47278 --end=47280
2019-07-24 18:34:19: dewikiversity (ID 132611) 0 pages (0.0|0.0/sec all|curr), 1 revs (19.3|19.3/sec all|curr), ETA 2019-07-25 03:07:34 [max 595591]
MWUnknownContentModelException from line 267 of /srv/mediawiki/php-1.34.0-wmf.15/includes/content/ContentHandler.php: The content model 'flow-board' is not registered on this wiki.
See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_handlers to find out which extensions handle this content model.
#0 /srv/mediawiki/php-1.34.0-wmf.15/includes/export/XmlDumpWriter.php(446): ContentHandler::getForModelID('flow-board')
#1 /srv/mediawiki/php-1.34.0-wmf.15/includes/export/XmlDumpWriter.php(380): XmlDumpWriter->writeSlot(Object(MediaWiki\Revision\SlotRecord), 1)
#2 /srv/mediawiki/php-1.34.0-wmf.15/includes/export/WikiExporter.php(531): XmlDumpWriter->writeRevision(Object(stdClass), Array)
#3 /srv/mediawiki/php-1.34.0-wmf.15/includes/export/WikiExporter.php(474): WikiExporter->outputPageStreamBatch(Object(Wikimedia\Rdbms\ResultWrapper), Object(stdClass))
#4 /srv/mediawiki/php-1.34.0-wmf.15/includes/export/WikiExporter.php(288): WikiExporter->dumpPages('page_id >= 4727...', false)
#5 /srv/mediawiki/php-1.34.0-wmf.15/includes/export/WikiExporter.php(173): WikiExporter->dumpFrom('page_id >= 4727...', false)
#6 /srv/mediawiki/php-1.34.0-wmf.15/maintenance/includes/BackupDumper.php(289): WikiExporter->pagesByRange(47278, 47280, false)
#7 /srv/mediawiki/php-1.34.0-wmf.15/maintenance/dumpBackup.php(82): BackupDumper->dump(1, 1)
#8 /srv/mediawiki/php-1.34.0-wmf.15/maintenance/doMaintenance.php(99): DumpBackup->execute()
#9 /srv/mediawiki/php-1.34.0-wmf.15/maintenance/dumpBackup.php(144): require_once('/srv/mediawiki/...')
#10 /srv/mediawiki/multiversion/MWScript.php(101): require_once('/srv/mediawiki/...')
#11 {main}

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SubjectRepoBranchLines +/-
workaround unknown content model for xml dump outputmediawiki/coremaster+9 -1
Create fallback for undefined content models.mediawiki/coremaster+127 -65
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ArielGlenn created this task.Jul 24 2019, 6:40 PM
ArielGlenn triaged this task as High priority.
ArielGlenn added a comment.Jul 24 2019, 6:45 PM

It's still a side effect of https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/464768/ We could add one more exception to invokeLenient() in XmlDumpWriter.php I guess, so that the stubs for these last wikis can run (and the rest of the dump steps for those wikis too). But the underlying issue should be fixed as well. This Flow issue was reported earlier at T220793

ArielGlenn added a project: Platform Engineering.Jul 24 2019, 6:45 PM
ArielGlenn mentioned this in T228720: stub for enwiki broken, attempt to load content for bad rev during sha1 retrieval.Jul 24 2019, 6:48 PM
Anomie moved this task from Inbox to Triage Meeting Inbox on the Platform Engineering board.Jul 24 2019, 7:04 PM
ArielGlenn added a comment.Jul 24 2019, 7:14 PM

Looking at where this occurs, I'd really prefer to have the Flow revisions set to the right content model for these two wikis, if it's something that can be done in the next 2-3 days. See T220594#5100772 for one of these revisions where the model name is wrong.

ArielGlenn moved this task from Backlog to Active on the Dumps-Generation board.Jul 24 2019, 7:36 PM
daniel subscribed.EditedJul 24 2019, 7:48 PM

Introducing a dummy ContentHandler as a fallback for this kind of thing would be pretty trivial (see also T205921#5234775). Maybe that should be on some roadmap somewhere...

gerritbot added a comment.Jul 24 2019, 7:53 PM

Change 525352 had a related patch set uploaded (by ArielGlenn; owner: ArielGlenn):
[mediawiki/core@master] workaround unknown content model for xml dump output

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/525352

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Jul 24 2019, 7:53 PM
ArielGlenn added a comment.Jul 24 2019, 7:55 PM

Woops, I codged the above together before seeing your comment, @daniel Feel free to reject, replace, whatever is appropriate.

ArielGlenn added a comment.Jul 24 2019, 8:07 PM

Previous stubs had this entry for the example revision in dewikiversity:

<page>
  <title>Was wir hören und sehen</title>
  <ns>2600</ns>
  <id>47279</id>
  <revision>
    <id>274772</id>
    <timestamp>2011-08-07T10:46:42Z</timestamp>
    <contributor>
      <username>MartinKurz</username>
      <id>11256</id>
    </contributor>
    <comment>Automatische Zusammenfassung: Die Seite wurde neu angelegt.</comment>
    <model>wikitext</model>
    <format>text/x-wiki</format>
    <text id="269201" bytes="352" />
    <sha1>o9mhxk86c2bxcvymcwsiirc2vyczgnp</sha1>
  </revision>
</page>

The code used to do

ContentHandler::getDefaultModelFor( $this->currentTitle );

so maybe that's a reasonable fallback for now.

ArielGlenn added a comment.Jul 24 2019, 9:24 PM

Note that the actual content of these revisions is in fact wikitext; when Flow was disabled the content model was not altered properly. See T220594#5101026 for extracted text for one of them.

ArielGlenn added a comment.Jul 25 2019, 10:23 AM

Copying here the comments from the patchset since it's getting a bit long.

Daniel Kinzler
12:02 AM

If that ContentHandler expects the content to conform to some specific syntax, it will die when trying to parse the content...

But if we don't actually try that, this hack could work :)

Is the ContentHandler actually used for anything but the format? If not, just set that to "unknown/unknown", and be done. Not ContentHandler needed.
ArielGlenn
12:20 AM

The previous behavior is to use the default handler for the title; unknown/unknown would be new in the dumps.

As to atually using the contenthandler, for stubs we don't care at all; for content it's dumpTextPass (other code); for ActiveAbstracts it's other code.

SpecialExport might be unhappy, I'd have to test.
Daniel Kinzler
12:33 AM

    The previous behavior is to use the default handler for the title; 

I'd consider that a bug. A consumer that relies on the mime type for parsing would fail, if that mime type was something like application/xml, but the content isn't.
Daniel Kinzler
12:35 AM

Conceptually, stubs shouldn't really have a format at all. The format tells the consumer the mime type of the serialized data between the <text> tags. If there is no data there, the format is meaningless.
ArielGlenn
12:46 AM

They are in the stubs because they are useful metadata for dump users/consumers, not because the stub user will use them for content conversion. Ideally the stubs should have absolutely all data the revision content dumps have, except for the content itself.
Daniel Kinzler
1:08 AM

But the serialization format is *not* meta data about anything except the serialization itself. I don't see how it could be useful for anything except decoding the content blob. Using them for anything else can really only be based on a misunderstanding. Which is also why rev_content_format is removed without  replacement - the format is not a property of the revision or the content, it's a property of a blob.

I'm wary of guessing what users might be doing with the data because it's usually something I didn't plan for or expect, even if that use might be wrong from where I sit.

It might be based on a misunderstanding but it's been that way since 2012 (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/core/+/a827739fb5e494ad657719d58ca5158247ed632f). That patch falls back to guessing the model based on the title, and getting the default handler for that.

I really don't like the idea of just removing data without planning and announcement, so if we were e.g. to move the content format into the text tag as an attribute, as proposed elsewhere, that should be done via a schema change (and I'm keeping a list of these proposals so we can actually evaluate and do them once 11 goes out). Introducing a new value such as 'unknown/unknown', while something we could do in the future, isn't something I think we should do now in the context of fixing a regression.

For the moment, I'd rather restore the previous content format output behavior, relying on the principle of least surprise for downstream users.

ArielGlenn added a comment.Jul 26 2019, 6:07 AM

I have run dewikiveristy and urwikibooks stubs manually with the patched XmlDumpWriter to unblock the current dump run.

• CCicalese_WMF added a subtask: T220608: Introduce UnknownContentHandler and UnknownContent.Jul 30 2019, 6:00 PM
• CCicalese_WMF removed a project: Platform Engineering.
ArielGlenn moved this task from Active to Blocked/Stalled/Waiting for event on the Dumps-Generation board.Aug 8 2019, 12:59 PM
daniel added a comment.Aug 29 2019, 3:13 PM

UnknownContentHandler now exists, it can be used like this:

$wgContentHandlers['xyzzy'] = 'UnknownContentHandler';
daniel closed subtask T220608: Introduce UnknownContentHandler and UnknownContent as Resolved.Jan 15 2020, 10:22 AM
gerritbot added a comment.Jul 19 2020, 7:54 PM

Change 614592 had a related patch set uploaded (by Daniel Kinzler; owner: Daniel Kinzler):
[mediawiki/core@master] Consistently use UnknownContent to handle unknown content.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/614592

gerritbot added a comment.Jul 22 2020, 6:54 PM

Change 614592 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/core@master] Create fallback for undefined content models.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/614592

ReleaseTaggerBot added a project: MW-1.36-notes (1.36.0-wmf.2; 2020-07-28).Jul 22 2020, 7:00 PM
Pppery edited projects, added Patch-Needs-Improvement; removed Patch-For-Review.Nov 10 2025, 4:55 AM
gerritbot added a comment.Mon, Mar 30, 1:14 PM

Change #525352 abandoned by Hashar:

[mediawiki/core@master] workaround unknown content model for xml dump output

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/525352

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gerritbot added a comment.Mon, Mar 30, 11:22 PM

Change #525352 restored by Thcipriani:

[mediawiki/core@master] workaround unknown content model for xml dump output

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/525352

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