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wikibase API should accept upper-case ID prefixes
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Wikibase uses "q123" for item IDs but "Q123" for the corresponding page title. The API should accept both form of the ID, for conveniance. The ID is still unique, we just define the prefix to be case-agnostic.

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 22 2014, 12:56 AM
• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-extensions-WikibaseRepository.
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daniel created this task.Oct 30 2012, 4:12 PM
jeblad added a comment.Oct 30 2012, 5:15 PM

Force lower case on ids in the API? Or make a method to normalize just the prefix into a known form?

daniel added a comment.Oct 30 2012, 5:54 PM

I think EntityContentFactory::getFromPrefixedId should simply accept upper- and lower case prefixes. Is there anything else that would need changing?

daniel added a comment.Oct 30 2012, 5:55 PM

Or rather, EntityContentFactory::getEntityTypeFromPrefixedId

Denny added a comment.Nov 8 2012, 11:22 AM

Confirmed. On the dev system it still has this behavior.

Legoktm added a comment.Aug 31 2013, 9:41 AM

https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetentities&ids=Q441536&format=jsonfm this was fixed at some point.

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