//API documentation is at http://www.mediawiki.orghttps://wiki95.com/pl/Api
//JsMwApi documentation is at http://en.wiktionary.orghttps://wiki95.com/pl/User_talk:Conrad.Irwin/Api.js
//Basic usage for the impatient: JsMwApi()({action:'query',prop:'meta'},function(res){alert(res)});
/* A Javascript wrapper to the MediaWiki API
*
* @param {String} url The url of api.php
* (default: wgScriptPath + '/api.php')
* @param {"local"|"remote"} "local" causes AJAX POST requests, and "remote" Javascript callback style request.
* (default: if url starts with http:// or https:// then "remote" else "local")
*/
function JsMwApi (api_url, request_type) {
if (!api_url)
{
api_url = mw.config.get( 'wgScriptPath' ) + '/api.php';
}
if (!request_type)
{
if (api_url.indexOf('http://') == 0 || api_url.indexOf('https://') == 0)
request_type = "remote";
else
request_type = "local";
}
/* The function returned by JsMwApi()
*
* @param{Parameters} query An object to be encoded, a string to use directly, or nested arrays of the above
* @param{Function(res)} callback The function that will be called with the parsed result from the API.
*/
function call_api (query, callback)
{
if(!query || !callback)
throw "Insufficient parameters for API call";
query = serialise_query(query);
if(request_type == "remote")
request_remote(api_url, query, callback, call_api.on_error || default_on_error);
else
request_local(api_url, query, callback, call_api.on_error || default_on_error);
}
/* The default error handler, can be overwritten by setting call_api.on_error
*
* @param {XmlHttpRequest|null} The request object used for this call, or null for a remote request
* @param {Function(res)} The callback that would have been called on success.
* @param {res} The parsed result from the API (or null).
*/
var default_on_error = JsMwApi.prototype.on_error || function (xhr, callback, res)
{
if (typeof(console) != 'undefined')
console.log();
callback(null);
}
/* Try to get a new XmlHttpRequest
*
* @deprecated Use $.getJSON, $.get, $.ajax or mw.loader.load
*
* @return {XmlHttpRequest}
* @throws "Could not create an XmlHttpRequest"
*/
function get_xhr ()
{
try{
return new XMLHttpRequest();
}catch(e){ try {
return new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
}catch(e){ try {
return new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
}catch(e){
throw "Could not create an XmlHttpRequest";
}}}
}
/* Make an AJAX request to a local api.php
*
* @param {String} the URI of api.php
* @param {String} the (URIencoded) query
* @param {Function(res)} the callback
* @throws "Could not create an XmlHttpRequest"
*/
function request_local (url, query, callback, on_error)
{
var xhr = get_xhr();
xhr.open('POST', url + '?format=json', true);
xhr.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
xhr.send(query);
xhr.onreadystatechange = function ()
{
if (xhr.readyState == 4)
{
var res;
if (xhr.status != 200)
res = {error: {
code: '_badresponse',
info: xhr.status + " " + xhr.statusText
}};
else
{
try
{
res = JSON.parse("("+xhr.responseText+")");
}
catch(e)
{
res = {error: {
code: '_badresult',
info: "The server returned an incorrectly formatted response"
}};
}
}
if (!res || res.error)
on_error(xhr, callback, res);
else
callback(res);
}
}
}
/* Make a callback request to a remote api.php. Restricted as per api.php documentation.
*
* @param {Url} The URI of api.php
* @param {String} A (URIencoded) request string.
* @param {Function(res)} The callback
*/
function request_remote (url, query, callback, on_error)
{
if(! window.__JsMwApi__counter)
window.__JsMwApi__counter = 0;
var cbname = '__JsMwApi__callback' + window.__JsMwApi__counter++;
window = function (res)
{
if (res.error)
on_error(null, callback, res);
else
callback(res);
}
var script = document.createElement('script');
script.setAttribute('type', 'text/javascript');
script.setAttribute('src', url + '?format=json&callback=window.' + cbname + '&' + query);
document.getElementsByTagName('head').appendChild(script);
}
/* Convert an input object into a URI-encoded query string.
*
* @param {Parameters} Either:
* A String (returned unchanged)
* An Object (each key value pair is encoded and then joined with &s)
* A boolean true causes the key to inserted with no value
* A boolean false causes the key to be missed out completely
* An array as a key is joined with "|" before encoding
* An Array (each item is recursively encoded and the result joined together)
* Note that parameters set in later parts of the array will obscure parameters
* with the same name set from earlier parts.
*
* @deprecated Use $.param() instead
*
* @return {String} A string that can be fed to the api over HTTP
*/
function serialise_query (obj)
{
var amp = "";
var out = "";
if (String(obj) === obj)
{
out = obj;
}
else if (obj instanceof Array)
{
for (var i=0; i < obj.length; i++)
{
out += amp + serialise_query(obj);
amp = (out == '' || out.charAt(out.length-1) == '&') ? '' : '&';
}
}
else if (obj instanceof Object)
{
for (var k in obj)
{
if (obj === true)
out += amp + encodeURIComponent(k) + '=1';
else if (obj === false)
continue;
else if (obj instanceof Array)
out += amp + encodeURIComponent(k) + '=' + encodeURIComponent(obj.join('|'));
else if (obj instanceof Object)
throw "API parameters may not be objects";
else
out += amp + encodeURIComponent(k) + '=' + encodeURIComponent(obj);
amp = '&';
}
}
else if (typeof(obj) !== 'undefined' && obj !== null)
{
throw "An API query can only be a string or an object";
}
return out;
}
// Make JSON.parse work
var JSON = (typeof JSON == 'undefined' ? new Object() : JSON);
if (typeof JSON.parse != 'function')
JSON.parse = function (json) { return eval('(' + json + ')'); };
// Allow .prototype. extensions
if (JsMwApi.prototype)
{
for (var i in JsMwApi.prototype)
{
call_api = JsMwApi.prototype;
}
}
return call_api;
}
JsMwApi.prototype.page = function (title) {
/* The function returned by JsMwApi().page("foo")
*
* Overrides the title= and titles= parameters of the query given to it.
*
* @param{Parameters}
* @param{Function(res)}
*/
function call_with_page (params, callback)
{
call_with_page.api(, callback);
}
/* Access to this pages JsMwApi() object, can be used to set on_error */
call_with_page.api = this;
/* A function to initiate the editing cycle.
*
* @param {Parameters} (optional)
* @param {Function(text, save_function, res)}
* text: The current text of the page,
* page: A function to save the result of this edit
* res: The raw API result
*/
call_with_page.edit = function (params, edit_function)
{
if (typeof(params) == 'function')
{
edit_function = params;
params = null;
}
params = [params, {
action: "query",
meta: "tokens",
prop: ,
rvprop:
}];
call_with_page(params, function (res)
{
if (!res || !res.query || !res.query.pages)
return edit_function(null);
// Get the first (and only) page from res.query.pages
for (var pageid in res.query.pages) break;
var page = res.query.pages;
var text = page.revisions ? page.revisions : '';
/* Save the given text to the page, will only work if the edit function has previously been called.
*
* @param {String} ntext The new text to save, if it is the same as the old text, or blank, this method will not save
* @param {Parameters} Extra parameters for the edit {summary: "blah", minor: true}
* @param {Function(res)} A callback once save has completed
*/
function save_function (ntext, params, post_save)
{
if (typeof(params) == 'function')
{
post_save = params;
params = null;
}
params = [params, {
action: "edit",
text: ntext,
token: res.query.tokens.csrftoken,
starttimestamp: page.starttimestamp,
basetimestamp: (page.revisions ? page.revisions.timestamp : false)
}];
call_with_page(params, post_save);
}
// Give control back to the outside world
edit_function(text, save_function, res);
});
}
/* A thin wrapper around the API's parse function. Set's the pst flag to
* make subst: work, and returns all parse information
*
* @param {String} params The text to parse, if this is omitted or null,
* then the page itself will be used
* @param {Function(text, res)} callback
*/
call_with_page.parse = function (to_parse, callback)
{
if (typeof to_parse == "function")
{
callback = to_parse;
to_parse = null;
}
var params = (to_parse == null ? {page: title} : {title: title, text: to_parse});
call_with_page.api(, function (res)
{
if (!res || !res.parse || !res.parse.text)
callback(null, res);
else
callback(res.parse.text, res);
})
}
/* A thin wrapper around .parse that forces the text to be parsed without
* any <p> tags that might otherwise get added.
* @param {String} params The text to parse
* NOTE This function is only useful for tiny fragments, anything ill-formed or with block-level elements is likely to fail.
* @param {Function(text, res)} callback called with output and original parse query result
*/
call_with_page.parseFragment = function (to_parse, callback)
{
call_with_page.parse("<div>\n" + to_parse + "</div>", function (parsed, res)
{
callback(parsed ? parsed.replace(/^<div>\n?/,'').replace(/(\s*\n)?<\/div>\n*(<!--*-->\s*)?$/,'') : parsed, res);
})
}
return call_with_page;
}