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Bug 50305 - Make property info (data type, labels) available via the API
Make property info (data type, labels) available via the API
Status: NEW
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Classification: Unclassified
WikidataRepo (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Normal enhancement (vote)
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Assigned To: Wikidata bugs
cleanup
: need-volunteer, performance
Depends on: 49742
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Reported: 2013-06-27 17:44 UTC by Daniel Kinzler
Modified: 2014-04-23 14:46 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description Daniel Kinzler 2013-06-27 17:44:43 UTC 
The essential info about properties should be available via the API in an efficient way that does not involve loading full entities.

Essentially, we'd want a web API for PropertyInfoStore and PropertyLabelResolver.
Comment 1 Kunal Mehta (Legoktm) 2013-08-31 09:38:59 UTC 
Is this considered fixed? https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetentities&ids=p31&props=datatype&format=jsonfm
Comment 2 Daniel Kinzler 2013-10-29 16:52:13 UTC 
@Kunal: no - wbgetentities retrieves the full blob from the text storage backend and filters the output. This is a LOT slower than getting the appropriate info from PropertyInfoStore and PropertyLabelResolver.

We could optimize these special cases in wbgetentities, or create a separate api module. But we should do one of these two.
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