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mediawiki_api client.create_page fails on Flow board
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With gerrit 151806, the Echo notifications.feature browser tests have a step "another user writes on my talk page" that uses MediawikiApi::Client.create_page.

This silently fails if the user's talk page is a Flow board, which is the default on the Flow team's test servers.

The action=edit API call returns successfully, but if you ask for the content of the page, e.g. Special:Export, you'll see that the revision ID is updated but the text content is an empty array. The moment someone visits the Flow board its content changes back to being {"flow-workflow":"<UUID>"}.

The Flow team needs to figure out what should happen when someone uses the action=edit API on a Flow board. It seems either it should fail, or it could succeed and modify the Flow board's header area.

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• Cmcmahon added a comment.Aug 12 2014, 3:42 PM

I am not sure that it is even wise to consider parity between creating or editing a wiki page and creating or editing a Flow entity using the same API calls.

I strongly suspect manipulating aspects of Flow should have an API of its own.

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Not relevant anymore with the current state of those tests. The echo tests are being completely re-written.

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