API:Edit/Editing with Ajax

Examples

Editing via Ajax

functionaddNewSection(summary,content,editToken){
$.ajax({
url:mw.util.wikiScript('api'),
data:{
format:'json',
action:'edit',
title:mw.config.get('wgPageName'),
section:'new',
summary:summary,
text:content,
token:editToken
},
dataType:'json',
type:'POST',
success:function(data){
if(data&&data.edit&&data.edit.result=='Success'){
window.location.reload();// reload page if edit was successful
}elseif(data&&data.error){
alert('Error: API returned error code "'+data.error.code+'": '+data.error.info);
}else{
alert('Error: Unknown result from API.');
}
},
error:function(xhr){
alert('Error: Request failed.');
}
});
}

varapi=newmw.Api();
functionaddNewSection(summary,content){
api.postWithToken("edit",{
action:"edit",
title:mw.config.get("wgPageName"),
section:"new",
summary:summary,
text:content
}).done(function(result,jqXHR){
mw.log("Saved successfully");
location.reload();
}).fail(function(code,result){
if(code==="http"){
mw.log("HTTP error: "+result.textStatus);// result.xhr contains the jqXHR object
}elseif(code==="ok-but-empty"){
mw.log("Got an empty response from the server");
}else{
mw.log("API error: "+code);
}
});
}