Rewrite/api.py

Contents 1 Proposed interface for api.py module 1.1 Error 1.2 Request 1.3 Query 2 Proposed unit tests

Proposed interface for api.py module

Error

class Error(pywikibot.Error)

Throw this exception whenever the API returns an <error> or invalid response

• (Public) Attributes:
  • code: contents of the 'error' 'code' field in the API response

    If API returns an unrecognized response, set 'code' to 'Unknown'

  • info: contents of the 'error' 'info' field in the API response
  • other: dict containing any other fields found in the API response

Request

class Request(object)

The base class for all API request types

• Constructor:

def __init__(self, site=None, format="json", **args)

site: a Site object; if absent, use default Site

format: do we want to rely on simplejson or XML as the format used internally?

args: format and all other keyword args are placed in a dict to be passed to the wiki

• (Public) Attributes:

• (Public) Methods:

def update(self, **args)

Update request's param dict from args

def submit(self)

Submit request to the wiki and use simplejson to turn the response into a dict

Handle routine comm errors at this level

Query

class Query(Request)

Since at least 75% of all API activity is going to use action=query, it seems to make sense to have a sub-class dedicated to this action that will have some methods that know about particular query types.

• Constructor:

def __init__(self, site=None, format="json", **args)

Same as the Request constructor, but add {'action': 'query'} to the params dict.

• (Public) Attributes:

• (Public) Methods:

Proposed unit tests