Raise exception on API errors

[mw] / src / mw / api.py

diff --git a/src/mw/api.py b/src/mw/api.py
index bd12bb0ffd2f15f5011398d6f4d14b4f6594de81..09467824b1e766695e3a58bb0a5b38cc79351ae7 100644 (file)
--- a/src/mw/api.py
+++ b/src/mw/api.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ###
 # mw - VCS-like nonsense for MediaWiki websites
-# Copyright (C) 2009  Ian Weller <ian@ianweller.org>
+# Copyright (C) 2010  Ian Weller <ian@ianweller.org>
 #
 # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -23,7 +23,9 @@ from StringIO import StringIO
 import urllib
 import urllib2
 
+
 class API(object):
+
     def __init__(self, api_url):
         self.api_url = api_url
         self.cookiejar = cookielib.CookieJar()
@@ -42,7 +44,10 @@ class API(object):
             data = gzipper.read()
         else:
             data = response.read()
-        return json.loads(data)
+        the_data = json.loads(data)
+        if 'error' in the_data.keys():
+            raise APIError(the_data['error']['info'])
+        return
 
     def limits(self, low, high):
         if self._high_limits == None:
@@ -55,3 +60,24 @@ class API(object):
             return high
         else:
             return low
+
+
+class APIError(Exception):
+
+    def __init__(self, info):
+        self.info = info
+
+    def __str__(self):
+        return self.info
+
+
+def pagename_to_filename(name):
+    name = name.replace(' ', '_')
+    name = name.replace('/', '!')
+    return name
+
+
+def filename_to_pagename(name):
+    name = name.replace('!', '/')
+    name = name.replace('_', ' ')
+    return name