[03:20:58] <Naleksuh>	 Krinkle : How can I use MediaWiki API to change the logged in users password?
[03:20:58] <Naleksuh>	 There is https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Resetpassword , but that sends reset email, not changing password like through preferences
[05:39:59] <TimStarling>	 Naleksuh: changeauthenticationdata
[05:40:17] <Naleksuh>	 Yeah I looked at that but it looked like it just changed other stuff
[05:40:46] <Naleksuh>	 Oh yeah, I need to get a `changeauthrequest` and I couldn't find anything that related to the user password
[05:41:01] <TimStarling>	 the example is
[05:41:12] <TimStarling>	 			'action=changeauthenticationdata' .
[05:41:12] <TimStarling>	 				'&changeauthrequest=MediaWiki%5CAuth%5CPasswordAuthenticationRequest' .
[05:41:12] <TimStarling>	 				'&password=ExamplePassword&retype=ExamplePassword&changeauthtoken=123ABC'
[05:42:01] <Naleksuh>	 But I need one of these first, right? https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query%2Bauthmanagerinfo
[05:43:42] <TimStarling>	 yes
[05:44:12] <Naleksuh>	 `One of the following values: change, create, create-continue, link, link-continue, login, login-continue, remove, unlink`
[05:44:17] <Naleksuh>	 Which one is password reset?
[05:44:55] <TimStarling>	 change, it says to use change at https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=changeauthenticationdata
[05:45:30] <Naleksuh>	 That just got me this https://usercontent.irccloud-cdn.com/file/EXBgRbq4/image.png
[05:45:43] <Naleksuh>	 There is no auth token or anything here
[05:48:13] <TimStarling>	 the value of changeauthrequest is supposed to be MediaWiki\Auth\PasswordAuthenticationRequest
[05:48:30] <TimStarling>	 that is the id in the screenshot
[05:48:43] <TimStarling>	 and also the value of changeauthrequest in the example
[05:51:26] <Naleksuh>	 Honestly at this point I might just scrape the web UI
[05:51:42] <Naleksuh>	 This API is confusing and convoluted
[05:52:37] <TimStarling>	 it's just because there is a pluggable auth system so there's not actually any guarantee that password authentication will be in use on a wiki
[05:53:12] <TimStarling>	 so if you scrape the web UI, you could theoretically get an error message or some completely different form without any place to put the password
[05:54:29] <TimStarling>	 the authmanagerinfo request is supposed to tell you about what authentication method is in use and what data it requires
[05:55:00] <TimStarling>	 if you want your client to only ever work with passwords, then the right answer is always changeauthrequest=MediaWiki\Auth\PasswordAuthenticationRequest
[05:59:58] <Naleksuh>	 ????
[06:00:03] <Naleksuh>	 It's the same thing every time?
[06:00:13] <Naleksuh>	 Why couldn't you have just told me to put `MediaWiki\Auth\PasswordAuthenticationRequest` instead of having to go do a second request
[06:01:09] <TimStarling>	 you mean why couldn't the documentation have told you that?
[06:01:32] <Naleksuh>	 Nevermind, it just said `"info": "Failed to create change request.",`
[06:01:57] <Naleksuh>	 TimStarling : No, the documentation told me to make a second API request, I assumed it was to get a random bytes or something but it is just that
[06:04:28] <TimStarling>	 "Failed to create change request" is pretty vague
[06:05:38] <TimStarling>	 there's no interface for AuthManager to tell you what actually went wrong with it
[06:06:04] <TimStarling>	 no debug logging either, look how many "return false" statements are in \MediaWiki\Auth\AuthenticationRequest::loadFromSubmission
[06:06:48] <TimStarling>	 there are a lot of different ways for it to fail and no way to find out which it was
[06:14:46] <Naleksuh>	 TimStarling : But that's literally all the info it gives
[06:14:49] <Naleksuh>	 I have nothing more to share than that
[06:14:55] <Naleksuh>	 Maybe I just need to scrape web UI.....
[11:06:27] <_joe_>	 anyone here uses vscode to write MediaWiki code? if so, how do you deal with the mediawiki formatting style?
[11:09:27] <Reedy>	 I've got a feeling some people do... I just can't remember who