API:Fehler und Warnungen

Wenn bei einer API-Abfrage etwas schief geht, wird ein Fehler oder eine Warnung ausgegeben (obwohl die HTTP-Antwort normalerweise trotzdem 200 OK ist). Bei nicht schwerwiegenden Bedingungen wie ungültigen Parametern werden Warnungen ausgegeben, während Fehler nur bei schwerwiegenden Bedingungen ausgegeben werden.

Warnungen

Warnungen werden nach dem Namen des Moduls gruppiert, das sie verursacht hat. Mehrere Warnungen desselben Moduls werden durch eine neue Zeile getrennt. Im Legacy-Modus der Fehlerformatierung (siehe unten), welcher der Standard ist, werden Warnungen im folgenden Format ausgegeben:

"warnings": {
    "modulename": {
      "*": "warning text"
    }
  }

(* wird durch warnings ersetzt, wenn formatversion=2 genutzt wird.)

Wenn eine Nicht-Legacy-Option zur Fehlerformatierung genutzt wird, werden Warnungen im selben Format ausgegeben wie Fehler. Mit errorformat=wikitext ist das Format beispielsweise:

"warnings": [
    {
        "code": "warning message key",
        "*": "text of warning",
        "module": "API module which caused the warning"
    }
]

(* will be replaced with text when formatversion=2 is used.)

Warnmeldungen

Typ	Beschreibung	Warnmeldung(en)
Disabled submodule	The action=query submodule has been disabled in the wiki. To check if a module is available before invoking it, see How do I check if an API module is available? in the FAQ.	The submodulename module has been disabled.
Missing submodule	The list, prop or meta submodule is not present in the wiki, for example if it is implemented by an extension that isn't loaded.	Unrecognized value for parameter list=submodule.
Parameter validation	Warnings thrown when validating parameters of any API module. paramname is replaced by the name of the parameter.	Too many values supplied for parameter paramname: the limit is limit. Unrecognized value for parameter paramname: value. Unrecognized values for parameter paramname: value1, value2, value3

Errors

Error formats

Since MediaWiki 1.29 errors are localizable, and available in multiple formats. An error (or warning) is expected to consist of a message, an error code (an arbitrary string, usually generated from the message key; see also #Standard error messages below), and optional extra data (an associative array). An API response with errors will look like this:

{
    "errors": [
        {
            "code": "error-code",
            /* ...error message..., */
            "data": [ /* ...any extra data... */ ],
            "module": "path to the API module that generated the error"
        },
        /* ...more errors... */
    ],
    "docref": "human-readable message on where to find help"
}

The data key in the output above will be missing if there is no extra data to display.

The way the error message in the output above is returned to the client is controlled by the errorformat API parameter. The various error formats available are:

Format	Description	Output
html	Intended for human display in HTML-capable clients	"html": "the message, interpreted as wikitext and parsed into HTML"
wikitext		"text": "the message as-is, with parameter substitution but without any parsing"
plaintext	Intended for human display in HTML-incapable clients. Plaintext conversion is a minimal, best-effort transformation to make the message (assumed to contain wikitext) more readable: tags are removed, HTML entities are replaced, certain HTML tags are intelligently replaced with punctuation.	"text": "the message, like wikitext, but with added plaintext conversion"
raw	Intended as a machine-readable format (note that the error key is more unique than the error code). Parameters can themselves be objects with key and params fields.	"key": "message key", "params": [ /* ...message parameters... */ ]
none	No message information at all.
bc	The default, for backward compatibility. There’s no point in specifying this value, use one of the non-legacy formats instead.	See #Legacy format

For the formatting modes which involve message lookup (html, wikitext and plaintext) the API parameter errorlang can be used to set the language (only needed when different from the content language) and errorsuselocal to set whether the MediaWiki: namespace can be used to override default error messages.

Error codes are also returned in the MediaWiki-API-Error response HTTP header, separated by commas when there are multiple errors.

For an example error response or to test your client's error handling, visit https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=blah&errorformat=plaintext&format=jsonfm&formatversion=2

API responses can contain multiple errors. For an example, try adding the lines the abusefilter will block this and the abusefilter will also block this to a Test Wikipedia page (API sandbox. If you are logged in, go to the action=edit tab and click Den Token automatisch ausfüllen first before making the request).

When errorformat is not set (or set to bc), errors will be displayed in the legacy format instead.

Legacy format

In the legacy error format, there is always at most one error; additional ones are discarded. The response looks like this:

{
    "error": {
        "code": "error-code",
        "info": "the message as-is, with parameter substitution but without any parsing",
        /* ...any extra data... */
    }
}

The extra data in the output above is spliced into the object instead of being under the data key.

Error messages in documentation

Error messages are documented in this wiki as shown below, which corresponds to the json error response in #Legacy format above:

Code	Info
errorcode	error message

The various error messages are:

Type	Description	Error message(s)
		Code	Info
Disabled module	The action module has been disabled in the wiki. To check if a module is available before invoking it, see How do I check if an API module is available? in the FAQ.	moduledisabled	The modulename module has been disabled.
Missing module	The action module is not present in the wiki, for example if it is implemented by an extension that isn't loaded	unknown_action	Unrecognized value for parameter action: modulename.
Parameter validation	Errors thrown when validating parameters of any API module. paramname is replaced by the name of the parameter.	multival_paramname	Only one of 'value1', 'value2', 'value3' is allowed for parameter 'paramname'
		unknown_paramname	Unrecognized value for parameter paramname: value.
		paramname	paramname may not be less than min (set to value).
		paramname	paramname may not be over max (set to value) for bots or sysops.
		paramname	paramname may not be over max (set to value) for users.
		badtimestamp_paramname	Invalid value "value" for timestamp parameter paramname.
		baduser_paramname	Invalid value "value" for user parameter paramname.
		invalidparammix	The parameters param1, param2, param3 cannot be used together
		missingparam	One of the parameters param1, param2, param3 is required
		_badcontinue	Invalid continue param. You should pass the original value returned by the previous query

Standard-Fehlermeldungen

Einige generische Fehlermeldungen werden von den Modulen gemeinsam genutzt. Wenn ein Modul diese Fehler ausgeben kann, wird dies ausdrücklich im AbschnittMögliche Fehler erwähnt.

Code	Information
unknownerror	Unbekannter Fehler: Dies bedeutet normalerweise, dass etwas Verrücktes wie eine seltene Ausführungsbedingung aufgetreten ist. Wenn du diesen Fehler erhältst, wiederhole deine Anfrage, bis sie erfolgreich ist oder eine informativere Fehlermeldung zurückgibt
unknownerror	Unbekannter Fehler: „Fehlercode“.
unknownerror-nocode	Unbekannter Fehler.
unsupportednamespace	Pages in the Special namespace can't be edited
protectednamespace-interface	You're not allowed to edit interface messages
protectednamespace	You're not allowed to edit pages in the "namespace" namespace
customcssjsprotected	You're not allowed to edit custom CSS and JavaScript pages
cascadeprotected	Diese Seite ist für die Bearbeitung gesperrt. Sie ist in die folgenden Seiten eingebunden, die mittels der Kaskadensperroption geschützt sind: Liste von kaskadierend geschützten Seiten
protectedpage	The "right" right is required to edit this page
permissiondenied	Der Zugriff wurde verweigert.
confirmemail	Du musst deine E-Mail-Adresse erst bestätigen, bevor du Bearbeitungen durchführen kannst. Bitte ergänze und bestätige deine E-Mail in den Einstellungen.
blocked	You have been blocked from editing
autoblocked	Your IP address has been blocked automatically, because it was used by a blocked user
ratelimited	You've exceeded your rate limit. Please wait some time and try again
readonly	The wiki is currently in read-only mode
badtoken	Invalid token (did you remember to urlencode it?)
missingtitle	The page you requested doesn't exist
mustbeposted	Type of your HTTP request message must be POST
hookaborted	The modification you tried to make was aborted by an extension hook
nosuchpageid	There is no page with ID id
nosuchrevid	There is no revision with ID id
nosuchrcid	There is no change with rcid "id"
nosuchuser	The user you specified doesn't exist
invalidtitle	Bad title "title"
invaliduser	Invalid username "username"
assertbotfailed	"assert=bot" has been used, but logged in user is not a bot
assertuserfailed	"assert=user" has been used, but user is not logged in
readapidenied	You need read permission to use this module
noapiwrite	Editing of this wiki through the API is disabled. Make sure the $wgEnableWriteAPI=true; statement is included in the wiki's LocalSettings.php file

Zusätzliche Anmerkungen

• Alle oben genannten Ausgaben von Fehlern und Warnungen nutzen format=json&formatversion=2. Für formatversion=1 wird das Feld docref durch * ersetzt.

• Gewartet von MediaWiki Interfaces Team.
• Echtzeit-Chat (IRC): #mediawiki-core ^connect
• Problem-Tracker: Phabricator MediaWiki-Action-API (Problem melden)