Returning URLs for sitelinks through the calls wbgetitems and wbsetsitelink should be optional. The URLs will be a large part of the content during transfer and it should be possible to turn them off if they will not be used.
They are now returned always.
Version: unspecified
Severity: normal
A normal output should be something like this
http://localhost/repo/api.php?action=wbgetitems&sites=enwiki&titles=Oxygen&props=sitelinks&format=jsonfm
{
"items": {
"8": {
"id": 8,
"sitelinks": {
"enwiki": {
"site": "enwiki",
"title": "Oxygen"
},
"afwiki": {
"site": "afwiki",
"title": "Suurstof"
},
"amwiki": {
"site": "amwiki",
"title": "\u12a6\u12ad\u1232\u1305\u1295"
},and an output with urls should look like this
http://localhost/repo/api.php?action=wbgetitems&sites=enwiki&titles=Oxygen&props=sitelinks/urls&format=jsonfm
{
"items": {
"8": {
"id": 8,
"sitelinks": {
"enwiki": {
"site": "enwiki",
"title": "Oxygen",
"url": "http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oxygen"
},
"afwiki": {
"site": "afwiki",
"title": "Suurstof",
"url": "http:\/\/af.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Suurstof"
},
"amwiki": {
"site": "amwiki",
"title": "\u12a6\u12ad\u1232\u1305\u1295",
"url": "http:\/\/am.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%E1%8A%A6%E1%8A%AD%E1%88%B2%E1%8C%85%E1%8A%95"
},A minor change of the url syntax for props is in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/17431/
Note that this is also a fix for an unreported bug, as it was possible to create repeating result sections.