MW API warnings (verbose & annoying)

[fredzannarbor]

WARNING:mwclient.client:Subscribe to the mediawiki-api-announce mailing list at https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api-announce for notice of API deprecations and breaking changes. Use [[Special:ApiFeatureUsage]] to see usage of deprecated features by your application.

WARNING:mwclient.client:Because "rvslots" was not specified, a legacy format has been used for the output. This format is deprecated, and in the future the new format will always be used.

Can we make these go away?

[danmichaelo]

Ah, yes, thanks for creating an issue about this. It was announced in August, but slipped out of my mind:

https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-api-announce/2018-August/000140.html

I'll try to update mwclient this weekend.

[danmichaelo]

Updated the Page.text() method to get content from the 'main' slot by default. Which means you can continue to use mwclient as before. Content from other slots can be retrieved using the slot parameter.

The action=edit API doesn't seem to support a slot parameter yet, so I'll have to wait for that.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multi-Content_Revisions/Action_API

[danmichaelo]

Btw. it's included in version 0.9.2, which is on pypi now.