Developer Info

Development Environment

Maven

Maven 3 is is used in a pretty standard way - just look at pom.xml for details

Eclipse

initial import

The project can be imported to eclipse - using the m2eclipse plugin is recommended

Coding conventions

spaces for indentation, not tabs! see

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2636589/how-can-i-get-eclipse-to-insert-tabs-instead-of-spaces-for-java-content-assist

and the answer

• http://stackoverflow.com/a/7749086/1497139

on how to do it

Testenvironment

There is a JUnit 4 Testsuite for the Mediawiki-Japi library that accesses some ExampleWikis for the tests.

A login attempt is part of most of the tests - you'll need credentials at http://www.mediawiki.org to run these tests successfully. You might want to create an account at https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&type=signup

Credentials for the test example Mediawikis

The credentials for the test example Mediawikis are fetched from ini files in the .mediawiki-api subdirectory of your home directory. E.g. if your username is bob and the id of the Mediawiki is "mediawiki_org" then you'll find the ini file at $HOME/.mediawiki-api/bob_mediawiki_org.ini.

If the credentials ini files do not exist yet you are warned during the test run e.g.

Jan 04, 2015 6:27:51 PM com.bitplan.mediawiki.japi.user.WikiUser getUser
Schwerwiegend: Need to be able to read Credentials for
    http://www.mediawiki.org
from /home/rene/.mediawiki-japi/rene_mediawiki_org.ini
Please run
    java -cp target/test-classes com.bitplan.mediawiki.japi.user.WikiUser mediawiki_org
to create it. Then restart your tests.

In this case you might want to run

    java -cp target/test-classes com.bitplan.mediawiki.japi.user.WikiUser mediawiki_org

The first parameter is the wikiid "mediawiki_org" which identifies the wiki the credentials are going to be used for.

When running WikiUser you'll be asked for:

• username (please enter it with a capital first letter or fix the .ini file later)
• password (will be encrypted)
• e-mail

like this:

java -cp target/test-classes com.bitplan.mediawiki.japi.user.WikiUser mediawiki_org
Please Enter username: Scott
Please Enter password: tiger
Please Enter email: scott@tiger.com
Please Enter shall i store Scott's credentials encrypted in wf_mediawiki_org.ini y/n?: y

If you are using the Jar file you can of course also call

java -cp mediawiki-japi-0.0.10.jar com.bitplan.mediawiki.japi.user.WikiUser ...

if e.g. you just downloaded version 0.0.10 of the Jar file

Example for a credential ini file

.mediawiki-japi/scott_mediawiki_org.ini

#Mediawiki JAPI credentials for mediawiki_org
#Mon Jan 05 05:51:15 CET 2015
secret=/8UXoM9of6Q\=
user=Scott
email=scott@tiger.com
salt=FJgsesHK
cypher=qh0CKZ2EQ4kO3nTtC90wM0AOl7RKrmwb