I don't have a clean tree so I dropped a PoC in P50590 which works locally for the deprecated API call user.query. (I realized too late that's not the non-deprecated call user.search. The latter would require different fiddling with PhabricatorPeopleSearchEngine.php etc; I did not fully get its structure/logic from a quick look.)

In T344303#9095925, @Aklapper wrote:

The endpoint user.mediawikiquery is entirely custom downstream code.
This would require some custom code in PhabricatorUser.php to provide that data, and an additional call to that custom code in the endpoint.

Yeah, I figured that might be the case.

(PS: For any Phab questions, there's https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Phabricator/Help which also helps others outside of WMF's walled gardens :)

Ah neat. Figured this was a technical feature request that ought to be requested here.

In T344303#9095955, @Aklapper wrote:

I don't have a clean tree so I dropped a PoC in P50590 which works locally for the deprecated API call user.query. (I realized too late that's not the non-deprecated call user.search. The latter would require different fiddling with PhabricatorPeopleSearchEngine.php etc; I did not fully get its structure/logic from a quick look.)

I'm not sure what this means (PoC? clean tree?) but thank you!

aklapper opened https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/phabricator/phabricator/-/merge_requests/15

Conduit API: Include MediaWiki username in user.search output

Thanks for the explainer :) Appreciate the patch!

aklapper merged https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/phabricator/phabricator/-/merge_requests/15

Conduit API: Include MediaWiki username in user.search output