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List:       wikitech-l
Subject:    Re: [Wikitech-l] Reporting errors from the API
From:       Matthew Flaschen <mflaschen () wikimedia ! org>
Date:       2013-01-25 23:09:49
Message-ID: 510310BD.70407 () wikimedia ! org
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On 01/25/2013 08:01 AM, Daniel Kinzler wrote:
> * When using system messages to translate the error codes from the API, these
> messages will often contain wikitext. How can we best avoid this? Wikitext is
> likely to be quite useless to the client - it would be better to return HTML; or
> pass all the message keys and parameters, and let the client generate the message.

It you take the approach of clients rendering wikitext into HTML, you
can use jqueryMsg
(https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Messages_API#mediawiki.jqueryMsg)

Of course, non MediaWiki clients will have to use the error code or some
other string.

Matt Flaschen

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