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.
Version: unspecified
Severity: normal
bingle-admin wrote:
Prioritization and scheduling of this bug is tracked on Mingle card https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/mobile/cards/1959
<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
jgonera wrote:
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.
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.
Change 133866 had a related patch set uploaded by MaxSem:
mobileview: handle pages redirecting to special/media
Change 133866 merged by jenkins-bot:
mobileview: handle pages redirecting to special/media