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Bug 64305 - mobileview fails on content pages redirecting to special pages
mobileview fails on content pages redirecting to special pages
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: MobileFrontend
Classification: Unclassified
stable (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Unprioritized normal
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2014-04-23 18:55 UTC by Max Semenik
Modified: 2014-05-19 17:17 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---

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Description Max Semenik 2014-04-23 18:55:25 UTC 
Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=mobileview&page=User%3APurplebackpack89%2FC&redirects=yes&prop=sections%7Ctext&sections=&sectionprop=level%7Cline&noheadings=yes&format=json

returns {"servedby":"mw1125","error":{"code":"internal_api_error_MWException","info":"Exception Caught: Invalid or virtual namespace -1 given.","*":""}} because the page in question, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Purplebackpack89/C , is a redirect to Special:Contributions/Purplebackpack89.

Suggestions what to return in such cases are welcome.
Comment 1 Bingle 2014-04-23 19:00:20 UTC 
Prioritization and scheduling of this bug is tracked on Mingle card https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/mobile/cards/1959
Comment 2 Max Semenik 2014-04-23 19:07:02 UTC 
<YuviPanda> MaxSem: ah, right. redirect: "Special:Contributions/something", special: true
<YuviPanda> ?
<YuviPanda> MaxSem: similar to mainpage: ""
<YuviPanda> MaxSem: in fact a general "specialpage": "" would be useful as well, I think
Comment 3 Juliusz Gonera 2014-04-25 22:50:09 UTC 
Max, not sure what are the steps to reproduce the bug. If I go to the mobile version of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Purplebackpack89/C everything seems to be fine.
Comment 4 Jon 2014-05-16 15:29:53 UTC 
Max it would be great if the api could return a link to the special page or even better return something akin to
{
redirect: 'Special:X'
}
so the caller can take care of it.

From mobile web perspective it's not a big deal - any requests for pages that return errors will be redirected to via the address bar so you probably at very least want to stop the exception being thrown! :)

Juliusz: the error is in the API response not the web page.
Comment 5 Gerrit Notification Bot 2014-05-16 23:28:51 UTC 
Change 133866 had a related patch set uploaded by MaxSem:
mobileview: handle pages redirecting to special/media

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/133866
Comment 6 Gerrit Notification Bot 2014-05-19 17:17:04 UTC 
Change 133866 merged by jenkins-bot:
mobileview: handle pages redirecting to special/media

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/133866
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