Last modified: 2014-10-03 14:53:24 UTC
Currently, all expandtemplates calls result in a warning about deprecated behaviour, see api-feature-usage.log on fluorine.
prop - Which pieces of information to get wikitext - The expanded wikitext categories - Any categories present in the input that are not represented in the wikitext output volatile - Whether the output is volatile and should not be reused elsewhere within the page ttl - The maximum time after which caches of the result should be invalidated parsetree - The XML parse tree of the input Note that if no values are selected, the result will contain the wikitext, but the output will be in a deprecated format. Values (separate with '|'): wikitext, categories, volatile, ttl, parsetree
Change 164044 had a related patch set uploaded by Marcoil: Bug 71490: Set prop 'wikitext' when calling action=expandtemplates https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/164044
Change 164044 merged by jenkins-bot: Bug 71490: Set prop 'wikitext' when calling action=expandtemplates https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/164044
We should also request and extract the categories. Other bits we'd like to get: - resourceloader modules added by parser functions (I *think* that's possible) - html-ness of the output (can be set by the extension: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Parser_functions#Controlling_the_parsing_of_output)
To clarify, the "we'd like to get" bits are things that aren't exposed by the expandtemplates API yet. We'd need to add them to the PHP API.
For the categories, there's bug #70196, and for the modules there's bug #67540. For the html-ness of the output I think it's better to open a new bug, specially if the current PHP API doesn't provide it yet.
