include write operations

[maxlath]

As pointed here, wikidata-cli doesn't offer write operations such as adding a claim to an entity and alikes.

I see two possible paths to get there:

• integrate wikidata-agent
• modularize wikidata-agent to use directly its logic without the server wrapper

[nichtich]

Write operations should not require a local server but store access token at a file. Aren't there any pure JavaScript Wikidata edit applications yet?!

On 29. August 2016 10:52:53 MESZ, "Maxime Lathuilière" notifications@github.com wrote:

As pointed here, wikidata-cli doesn't offer write operations such as adding a claim to an entity and alikes.

I see two possible paths to get there:

• integrate wikidata-agent
• modularize wikidata-agent to use directly its logic without the server wrapper

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[maxlath]

not that I'm aware of

The motivation for a server was to make edits with curl as simple as

curl -X POST http://localhost:4115/claim -d 'entity=Q4115189&property=P2002&value=Zorg'

[nichtich]

I'd move the backend of wikidata-agent (directory lib) into wikidata-sdk to extend the latter with write operations. Parts of wikidata-toolkit may be useful to look at, but a thin, opiniated wrapper on top of the API is enough. For instance:

var agent = wdk.agent({ bot: 1, ...}) // general settings, including wikidata-token
item = { id: "Q123", revision: "..." } // optionally include revision. Should also support plain id
agent.setLabel(item, language, value, summary)
agent.setDescription(item, language, value, summary)
agent.setAliases(item, language, aliases, summary)
agent.addAliases(item, language, aliases, summary)
agent.removeAliases(item, language, aliases, summary)
agent.setSitelink(item, site, title, summary)
agent.addClaim(item, property, value, summary)
agent.setClaim(claim, property, value, index, summary)
agent.removeClaim(claim, summary)
agent.setQualifier(claim, property, value, summary)
...

[maxlath]

existing options to store the credentials:

• configstore
• inquirer-credentials (or directly dot-file-config on which it depends)

[maxlath]

Write operation are coming! thank to wikidata-edit, which is basically an extraction of the work done on wikidata-agent into a separate module.

For the config to persistent credentials, I went for a simple json file

[maxlath]

done: write operations documentation