Last modified: 2014-08-22 06:38:51 UTC
When the td is transcluded, the api returns an empty array for "sets". "sets" are getting eaten on transclusion. i.e. in the api they appear in, for instance, api.php?action=templatedata&titles=Template:Cite_journal/doc, but NOT in api.php?action=templatedata&titles=Template:Cite_journal, when the sets field is set in <templatedata> tags.
Additional info: 1. Sets are not currently being used, as far as I know. 2. So in order to test this, you'll have to add (on localhost) the set parameter. For instance, in my <templdatedata> I have: "sets": [ { "label": "SomeIDs", "params": ["id", "rfc"] } ], 3. And then in the api, on Cite_journal/doc I get back: "sets": [ { "label": { "en-gb": "SomeIDs" }, "params": [ "id", "rfc" ] } ], 4. But in the api, on Cite_journal, I get back: "sets": [] Which is an empty array that is appended to what is returned from the api, since what the is retrieved from the database does not contain the sets parameter.
I tested this on my local wiki by adding sets: [] to a local template. I was able to get the full information (with the sets I filled in) in the API response. If this was tested in production, I wonder if it may have been a case of delay between updating some cache the API is using? Am I misunderstanding the problem?
Can't reproduce this on latest master. Edited Unsigned/doc on my local wiki and added a sets section: "sets": [ { "label": { "en": "Default", "nl": "Standaard" }, "params": [ "user", "timestamp" ] } ] * w/api.php?format=jsonfm&action=templatedata&titles=Template:Unsigned/doc * w/api.php?format=jsonfm&action=templatedata&titles=Template:Unsigned Both included the new "sets" data.
Thanks for looking into this all. I just realized this is actually a duplicate bug: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50372 Basically the templatedata property in pp page gets updated when I save changes to cite_web/doc, but not cite_web, so when I made api requests I was getting old td from cite_web and the new changes to cite_web/doc. I can force the change by making a blank edit to the place where td is transcluded i.e. directly in Template:cite_web. The fact that what I was editing was "sets" at the time was a red herring, so thanks for disabusing me of the notion this was a "sets" issue! *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 50372 ***
