Last modified: 2014-04-22 20:44:42 UTC
It seems useful to provide some API to determine if Flow is enabled on a page, since that affects whether many API actions will work or make sense (bug 60808). The equivalent for LiquidThreads is it returns use-liquid-threads="1" in pageprops queries. Compare LQT page: https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=pageprops&titles=Talk:Flow_Portal/Archive2 with Flow board: https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=pageprops&titles=Talk:Sandbox (Note the way we enable Flow on a page is likely to change; editing PHP config files doesn't scale.)
(In reply to comment #0) > (Note the way we enable Flow on a page is likely to change; editing PHP > config > files doesn't scale.) Is there a bug / discussion somewhere discussing this? The pageprops module that LQT uses just pulls from the page_props table, which is what I think Flow should use as well. If we decide to go down that route, a custom API module won't be needed, it'll just work™.
(In reply to comment #1) > (In reply to comment #0) > > > (Note the way we enable Flow on a page is likely to change; editing PHP > > config > > files doesn't scale.) > > Is there a bug / discussion somewhere discussing this? Not to my knowledge; it's one of those things where it's dependent on how we want to go about deploying it more widely (not: how we do that technically, but how we do that from a community perspective), and so it's on the back-burner until Flow itself just works™. I invite you to start up a thread on the E2 list, though, because it's a conversation we keep having in fits and starts and never quite finishing.
While page_props would be workable, I would lean towards having a "prop=flow" query module that would also allow for returning other flow data related to the page. Unless there is no flow data you can usefully fetch by passing a page title? e.g. api.php?format=jsonfm&action=query&titles=Foo|Talk:Foo&prop=flow might return something like this: { "query": { "pages": { "12345": { "pageid": 12345, "ns": 0, "title": "Foo" }, "12346": { "pageid": 12346, "ns": 1, "title": "Talk:Foo", "flow": { "enabled": true } } } } }
Change 111255 had a related patch set uploaded by Legoktm: API: Add prop=flow to detect if Flow is enabled on a page https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/111255
Change 111255 merged by jenkins-bot: API: Add prop=flowinfo to detect if Flow is enabled on a page https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/111255
