Extension:EventBus

MediaWiki extensions manual

EventBus Release status: beta
Implementation	Data extraction
Description	Propagation of change events to a RESTful service
Author(s)	EEvans (WMF)talk
Latest version	0.1 (2015-11-19)
Compatibility policy	Snapshots releases along with MediaWiki. Master is not backward compatible.
MediaWiki	1.27+
PHP	5.4+
Database changes	No
License	GNU General Public License 2.0 or later
Download	Download extension Git [?]: Download Git master browse repository (GitHub) commit history repository contributors (GitHub) code review
Parameters $wgEnableEventBus $wgEventBusMaxBatchByteSize $wgEventBusStreamNamesMap $wgEventBusEnableRunJobAPI $wgEventServiceDefault $wgEventServices
Hooks used ArticleDeleteComplete ArticleProtectComplete ArticlePurge ArticleRevisionVisibilitySet ArticleUndelete BlockIpComplete CentralNoticeCampaignChange ChangeTagsAfterUpdateTags LinksUpdateComplete PageDeleteComplete PageMoveComplete PageSaveComplete RevisionRecordInserted
Quarterly downloads	10 (Ranked 160th)
Public wikis using	947 (Ranked 264th)
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Issues	Open tasks · Report a bug

The EventBus extension propagates state changes (edit, move, delete, revision visibility, etc) to an EventGate instance, providing consumers of the service with the means of tracking changes to MediaWiki content.

Download / Install

The extension can be retrieved directly from Git ^[?]:

• Browse code
• Some extensions have tags for stable releases.
  • Browse tags
  • Select the tag
  • Click "snapshot"
• Each branch is associated with a past MediaWiki release. There is also a "master" branch containing the latest alpha version (might require an alpha version of MediaWiki).
  • Browse branches
  • Select a branch name
  • Click "Continue"

Extract the snapshot and place it in the extensions/EventBus/ directory of your MediaWiki installation.

If you are familiar with Git and have shell access to your server, you can also obtain the extension as follows:

cd extensions/ git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/EventBus.git

• To enable, add the following code to the bottom of your LocalSettings.php:

wfLoadExtension( 'EventBus' );

•  Done; Navigate to 'Special:Version' on your wiki, and verify the extension is successfully installed

State events

Known issues

Ideally, this sort of change propagation would be atomic, that is to say, if one of the tracked changes is committed in MediaWiki, the corresponding event is guaranteed to be delivered (even if by eventual consistency). As this extension is hook-based, that is not currently the case; Truly reliable event delivery will likely require something bound to the corresponding database transaction. (tracked in task T120242.)

Configuration

Note: For this extension to be useful, you need to have Kafka installed with EventGate as the event-intake service.

To enable the sending of state events, add the following to your LocalSettings.php, with the event service name and URLs set according to your environment.

$wgEventServices = [
    'eventbus'  => ['url' => 'http://hostname:8888/v1/events', 'timeout' => 10],
    'eventgate' => ['url' => 'http://hostname:8192/v1/events'],
    // ...
];

Purge events

MediaWiki core provides CDN purges to its EventRelayer, which is null by default. To enable sending CDN purges to EventGate/Kafka as well, use the EventBus adapter for EventRelayer as follows.

$wgEventRelayerConfig = [
    'cdn-url-purges' => [
        'class' => \MediaWiki\Extension\EventBus\Adapters\EventRelayer\CdnPurgeEventRelayer::class,
        'stream' => 'resource-purge',
    ],
    'default' => [
        'class' => EventRelayerNull::class,
    ],
];

RunJob REST API

The RunJob REST API allows you to execute a job using a REST API endpoint.

Site configuration

To enable the RunJob REST API on your wiki, set $wgEventBusEnableRunJobAPI in LocalSettings.php. The RunJob REST API is compatible with MediaWiki 1.34 and later.

/**
 * Enable the Run Job REST API
 *
 * @see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EventBus#Run_Job_REST_API
 */
$wgEventBusEnableRunJobAPI = true;

Run job

Route: /eventbus/v0/internal/job/execute

Method: POST

Content-Type: application/json

Submits a job for execution by the event service. This endpoint is released under v0/internal; it should be considered unstable and may change in backwards incompatible ways without notice.

Request example

# Runs the job described in filename.json
curl -X POST -d @filename.json http:/examplewiki.org/w/rest.php/eventbus/v0/internal/job/execute --header "Content-Type:application/json"

Request parameters

Here are the minimum parameters required by the endpoint. The full schema of a job can be found in the mediawiki-event-schemas directory.

parameter	required	example	description
database	Required	enwiki	Name of the wiki database
type	Required	deleteJob	Type of job
params	Required	{ "namespace": 0, "title": "testing", "wikiPageId": 34, "reason": "testing delete job", "suppress": false, "tags": [], "logsubtype": "delete" }	Parameters that are specific to the job
mediawiki_signature	Required	d8c84b3d6c810c2db6bf1cb74400c25d4bc02d65	The cryptographic signature of the event based on the MediaWiki SecretKey

Responses

200	Success Response example { "status": true, "error": null, "caught": [], "timeMs": 525 }
400	Invalid event received Response example { "message": "Invalid event received", "missing_params": [ "database", "type", "params" ], "httpCode": 400, "httpReason": "Bad Request" }
400	Failed creating job from description Response example { "message": "Failed creating job from description", "error": "Error Message", "httpCode": 400, "httpReason": "Bad Request" }
403	Missing MediaWiki signature Response example { "message": "Missing mediawiki signature", "httpCode": 403, "httpReason": "Forbidden" }
403	Invalid MediaWiki signature Response example { "message": "Invalid mediawiki signature", "httpCode": 403, "httpReason": "Forbidden" }
415	Unsupported Content-Type Response example { "message": "Unsupported Content-Type", "httpCode": 415, "httpReason": "Unsupported Media Type", "content_type": "text/plain" }
423	Wiki is in read-only mode Response example { "message": "Wiki is in read-only mode", "httpCode": 423, "httpReason": "Locked" }
500	Could not decode the event Response example { "message": "Could not decode the event", "httpCode": 500, "httpReason": "Internal Server Error", "error": "Error message" }
500	Internal Server Error Response example { "message": "Internal Server Error", "httpCode": 500, "httpReason": "Internal Server Error", "error": "Error message" }
501	Set $wgEventBusEnableRunJobAPI to true Response example { "message": "Set $wgEventBusEnableRunJobAPI to true to enable the internal EventBus API", "httpCode": 501, "httpReason": "Not Implemented", }

Response schema

key	type	description
status required	boolean	Whether the job succeeded
error required	string	A string of the error or empty if there was no error specified
caught required	array	List of FQCNs (fully-qualified class names) corresponding to any exceptions caught
timeMS required	float	Job execution time in milliseconds

/**
 * Enable the Run Job REST API
 *
 * @see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EventBus#Run_Job_REST_API
 */
$wgEventBusEnableRunJobAPI = true;

Known issues

In Windows environments this extension causes critical performance problems if registered endpoint is not available.

References

• T84923: Reliable publish / subscribe event bus
• T116786: Integrate eventbus-based event production into MediaWiki
• T120242: Reliable (atomic) MediaWiki event production