Manual:$wgAPIModules

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API: $wgAPIModules
API module extensions.
Introduced in version:1.11.0 (r25364)
Removed in version:still in use
Allowed values:(array)
Default value:[]

Details[edit]

Associative array mapping module name to class name. Extension modules may override the core modules (which are initialized in ApiMain.php ).

Example[edit]

Suppose you wanted to create an API module to calibrate the wiki's awesomeness level. You would write a new extension, CalibrateAwesomeness, putting the following in your extension.json file:

	"AutoloadNamespaces": {
		"MediaWiki\\Extension\\CalibrateAwesomeness\\": "src/"
	},
	"APIModules": {
		"calibrateawesomeness": "MediaWiki\\Extension\\CalibrateAwesomeness\\ApiCalibrateAwesomeness"
	},

Then you would create an extensions/CalibrateAwesomeness/src/ApiCalibrateAwesomeness.php file containing an ApiCalibrateAwesomeness class that extends, say, ApiBase , e.g.

namespace MediaWiki\Extension\CalibrateAwesomeness;

use ApiBase;
use Wikimedia\ParamValidator\ParamValidator;

class ApiCalibrateAwesomeness extends ApiBase {

	public function execute() {
		/* … */
	}

	public function getAllowedParams() {
		return [
			'level' => [
				ParamValidator::PARAM_TYPE => 'integer',
				ParamValidator::PARAM_REQUIRED => true,
			]
		];
	}
}

After installing your new extension, you could then access that module by using, e.g., https://example.org/w/api.php?action=calibrateawesomeness&level=1000.

If you want to use a factory for creating the API module, you can define it like this:

	"APIModules": {
		"calibrateawesomeness": {
			"class": "MediaWiki\\Extension\\CalibrateAwesomeness\\ApiCalibrateAwesomeness",
			"factory": "MediaWiki\\Extension\\CalibrateAwesomeness\\ApiCalibrateAwesomenessFactory::create"
	},

Where class is the class of the API module and factory is some callable. There are more options available, see ObjectFactory for the full syntax.


See also[edit]