Changelog

Version 0.5.0

Released on June 13, 2017.

• Wikidata API calls over network became possible to be cached.

  • Client now has cache_policy attribute and constructor option. Nothing is cached by default.

  • Added wikidata.cache module and CachePolicy interface in it. Two built-in implementation of the interface were added:

    NullCachePolicy

    No-op.

    MemoryCachePolicy

    LRU cache in memory.

    ProxyCachePolicy

    Proxy/adapter to another proxy object. Useful for utilizing third-party cache libraries.

  • wikidata.client.Client.request logger became to record logs about cache hits as DEBUG level.

Version 0.4.1

Released on April 30, 2017.

• Fixed AssertionError from getlist() on entities with empty claims.

Version 0.4.0

Released on April 24, 2017.

• Monolingual texts became able to be handled.
  • Added MonolingualText type which is a true subtype of str.

Version 0.3.0

Released on February 23, 2017.

• Now Client became able to customize how it decodes datavalues to Python objects.
  • Added wikidata.datavalue module and Decoder class inside it.
  • Added datavalue_decoder option to Client.
• Now files on Wikimeda Commons became able to be handled.
  • New decoder became able to parse Wikimedia Commons files e.g. images.
  • Added wikidata.commonsmedia module and File class inside it.
• The meaning of Client constructor’s base_url prameter beccame not to contain the trailing path wiki/ from https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/. As its meaning changed, the value of WIKIDATA_BASE_URL constant also changed to not have the trailing path.
• Added load option to Client.get() method.

Version 0.2.0

Released on February 19, 2017.

• Made Entity multidict. Now it satisfies Mapping[Entity, object] protocol.
• Added Entity.type property and EntityType enum class to represent it.
• Added entity_type_guess option and guess_entity_type() method to Client class.
• Implemented Hashable protocol and ==/= operators to Entity for equality test.

Version 0.1.0

Initial version. Released on February 15, 2017.