Using api.php?action=query&meta=userinfo&uiprop=rights|hasmsg I get
information about new message.
Now I can read it using api, but that doesn't flag the talk page as
read.
I tried action=setnotificationtimestamp as someone suggested but later I received a response that it's broken and needs fix. So once it's fixed just close this.
Version: 1.23.0
Severity: enhancement
(In reply to Peter Bena from comment #0)
I tried action=setnotificationtimestamp as someone suggested but later I
received a response that it's broken and needs fix. So once it's fixed just
close this.
No, it's not "broken". It works exactly as intended: it sets the notification timestamp of some set of pages. It's not intended to affect the value returned by User::getNewtalk().
OTOH, perhaps the API should include some method to flag the talk page as "read" with respect to User::getNewtalk() rather than requiring a hit on index.php.
Change 156274 had a related patch set uploaded by Nemo bis:
created a new api to flag messages as read
Change 156274 had a related patch set uploaded by Merlijn van Deen:
API: created a new api to flag messages as read
(In reply to Gerrit Notification Bot from comment #5)
Change 156274 merged by jenkins-bot:
API: created a new api to flag messages as read
@Peter Bena: This is why the "Bug:" footer is useful.