The essential info about properties should be available via the API in an efficient way that does not involve loading full entities.
Essentially, we'd want a web API for PropertyInfoStore and PropertyLabelResolver.
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
Whiteboard: cleanup
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Invalid | None | T52305 Make property info (data type, labels) available via the API | |||
| Resolved | None | T51742 Track property data types in a database table. |
@Kunal: no - wbgetentities retrieves the full blob from the text storage backend and filters the output. This is a LOT slower than getting the appropriate info from PropertyInfoStore and PropertyLabelResolver.
We could optimize these special cases in wbgetentities, or create a separate api module. But we should do one of these two.