mw.Title should provide a function to get a Title object from a URL
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	Oct 29 2013, 9:34 AM

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Like the new Title.newFromImg method a method to get the Title object for a link or its href attribute would be very useful. Such a function would have to:

Check that the link is a local link.
Get the title either from the title parameter or from the path.
Unescape it and create a title object.

Currently gadgets that need to determine the title for a given link mostly use the title attribute of the link (and temporarily broke on bug 542, and regularly break if other gadgets change the title, and don't work for missing pages, which have a "page does not exist" in the title). Having a function that takes care to get everything right would help very much in programming gadgets, and would make bug 38598 comment 3 really true.

Version: 1.22.0
Severity: enhancement

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Reference: bz56303

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Add mw.Title.newFromURL function	mediawiki/core	master	+113 -0

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Change 222887 had a related patch set uploaded (by M4tx):
Add mw.Title.newFromLink function

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/222887

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@Jdlrobson Is there a use case you need this for? If not, I'd decline.

We would use this in VE, in a few places we get a URL from the user (e.g. when directly inserting a link, or when handling copy-pasted HTML), and we need to treat it differently if it corresponds to a page on that wiki. For example ve.dm.MWInternalLinkAnnotation.static.getTargetDataFromHref.

In T58303#5848995, @Krinkle wrote:

@Jdlrobson Is there a use case you need this for? If not, I'd decline.

Not that I currently know of. I am okay with declining.

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