Backporting this so the LTS release has forwards compatibility with
Wikipedia templates.
mw.loadData() allows for optimizing the loading Lua tables by requiring
only one parse and lookup. However it's often easier for people to
write/maintain bulk data in JSON rather than Lua tables.
mw.loadJsonData() has roughly the same characteristics as mw.loadData()
and it can be used on JSON content model pages in any namespace.
As noted on the linked bug report, it's possible to already implement
this by writing a wrapper Lua module that loads and parses the JSON
content. But that requires a dummy module for each JSON page, which is
just annoying and inconvenient.
Test cases are copied from the mw.loadData() ones, with a few omissions
for syntax not supported in JSON (e.g. NaN, infinity, etc.).
Bug: T217500
Change-Id: I1b35ad27a37b94064707bb8c9b7108c7078ed4d1
(cherry picked from commit 1000d322e5)
This reverts commit 62e1fb0b5f.
Reason for revert: caused several errors:
* unnamespaced HooksTest collides with core’s class of the same name
* Scribunto_LuaError renamed without class alias despite being used in Wikibase
Bug: T314464
Change-Id: I8b151327236bf86945e59823fba155497e4b3fc6
The replacement, Parser::getStripState(), was added to MediaWiki in
1.34.
The extension.json for this extension already requires MW >= 1.35.
Bug: T275160
Change-Id: I062ac8b69756a7ad35d8cc744b4735fd2e70f13e
