wikibase-api

Wikibase JavaScript API

JavaScript client for the Wikibase Repository web API.

Release notes

3.0.2 (2018-11-08)

• Fixed wikibase.api.RepoApi to check whether the user is still logged in before making any POST requests.

3.0.1 (2017-11-01)

• Fixed wikibase.api.RepoApi.getEntities to return all properties of the entity by default.

3.0.0 (2017-10-13)

• Fixed certain wikibase.api.RepoApi methods failing when passing in empty strings.
• Made the library a pure JavaScript library.
• Removed MediaWiki extension credits registration.
• Removed MediaWiki ResourceLoader module definitions.
• Removed WIKIBASE_JAVASCRIPT_API_VERSION constant.
• Raised DataValues JavaScript library version requirement to 0.10.0.

2.2.2 (2017-07-10)

• Fixed inconsistencies in wikibase.api.RepoApi introduced in 2.2.1.

2.2.1 (2017-07-07)

• Fixed certain wikibase.api.RepoApi methods (most notably parseValue and setAliases) not properly accepting values that contain pipe characters.
• ECMAScript 5 is now required. This most notably excludes Internet Explorer 8.

2.2.0 (2016-10-31)

• Forward error message parameters in wikibase.api.RepoApiError.

2.1.1 (2016-08-04)

• Follow up fix to HTML escaping in wikibase.api.RepoApiError.

2.1.0 (2016-08-03)

• Fixed HTML escaping in wikibase.api.RepoApiError.
• Fixed forwarding of error messages in wikibase.api.FormatValueCaller and ParseValueCaller.
• Removed unused wikibase-error-ui-client-error message.

2.0.0 (2016-05-31)

• Removed meaningless, unsupported sort and dir parameters from:
  • wikibase.api.RepoApi.getEntities
  • wikibase.api.RepoApi.getEntitiesByPage. This only breaks callers using the normalize parameter.
• Replaced deprecated "edit" token with "csrf".

1.1.1 (2016-05-30)

• Fix getLocationAgnosticMwApi behavior in Internet Explorer

1.1.0 (2016-02-17)

• Added optional propertyId parameter to RepoApi::formatValue
• Added optional propertyId parameter to FormatValueCaller::formatValue

1.0.5 (2016-01-27)

• Added compatibility with DataValues JavaScript 0.8.0.
• Removed compatibility for Internet Explorer 8 by removing the json polyfill.

1.0.4 (2015-09-30)

• Use mw.ForeignApi for remote API endpoints (T50389)
• Pass uselang parameter to wbsearchentities api call

1.0.3 (2015-05-21)

• Made installable with DataValues JavaScript 0.7.0.

1.0.2 (2015-05-20)

Enhancements

• Updated code documentation to be able to generate documentation using JSDuck.
• wikibase.api.RepoApi QUnit tests have been rewritten to not execute actual API requests anymore.
• Added wikibase.api.RepoApi QUnit tests for functions not yet tested.
• Added type checks to wikibase.api.RepoApi functions to actually reflect parameter documentation in the code instead of relying on the back-end handling.

Bugfixes

• An empty Entity may be created by omitting the data parameter on wikibase.api.RepoApi.createEntity() again.
• wikibase.api.RepoApi functions explicitly submit default parameters if not set otherwise.

1.0.1 (2014-11-28)

• Bump the data-values/javascript dependency to 0.6.0 so that it matches Wikibase.git's. No changes needed.

1.0.0 (2014-11-26)

Initial release.