Last modified: 2014-02-04 14:49:50 UTC
The serialization of PropertyValueSnaks may contain a datatype field indicating the snak's data type. This is more useful than the often ambiguous or misleading value type. The output gernerated by API modules should thus contain the datatype field.
Change 96258 had a related patch set uploaded by Daniel Kinzler: Allow service injection into serializers. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/96258
Status: this is now supported by the serializers, but API modules need to be updated to make use of that new feature.
Change 108530 had a related patch set uploaded by Addshore: Include dataType id in API output https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/108530
Change 108530 merged by Jeroen De Dauw: Include dataType id in API output. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/108530