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WebRequest
The WebRequest class is wrapper of original WebRequest class

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List of implemented functions

 * mw_json_decode — Decodes a JSON string
 * mw_json_encode — Returns the JSON representation of a value
 * transclude — Returns text from parsing a wiki page specified by a title string (default namespace is the Template namespace) or a WTitle object, arguments given as an array of strings (string keys are used for named arguments)
 * uuid_create — Creates random UUID (example: 78f01ee7-8140-4c4d-83c0-f180684fecab)

List of implemented constants

 * UUID — Returns random UUID (alias of function uuid_create)

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