readapidenied errors

[stcmeh]

We've upgraded our Wiki to a new version of mediaWiki and now ceterach doesn't work anymore.

Here's the dump:

  File "/home/cad/anaconda/Anaconda3-2020.11/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ceterach-0.0.1-py3.8.egg/ceterach/utils.py", line 42, in wrapped
    if not hasattr(self, attr): self.load_attributes()

  File "/home/cad/anaconda/Anaconda3-2020.11/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ceterach-0.0.1-py3.8.egg/ceterach/page.py", line 107, in load_attributes
    self.__load(res)

  File "/home/cad/anaconda/Anaconda3-2020.11/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ceterach-0.0.1-py3.8.egg/ceterach/page.py", line 128, in __load
    res = res or next(i(kwargs, use_defaults=False))

  File "/home/cad/anaconda/Anaconda3-2020.11/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ceterach-0.0.1-py3.8.egg/ceterach/api.py", line 384, in olditerator
    res = self.call(params, rawcontinue='', **more_params)

  File "/home/cad/anaconda/Anaconda3-2020.11/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ceterach-0.0.1-py3.8.egg/ceterach/api.py", line 271, in call
    return self._call(params, more_params, use_defaults=use_defaults)

  File "/home/cad/phozone/latest/python/mwiki.py", line 140, in dbg_call
    raise raiseme

CeterachError: You need read permission to use this module.

I managed to hack a copy of api._call and print out the input parameters:

ceterach.api._call({'prop': ('info', 'revisions', 'categories'), 'rvprop': ('ids', 'flags', 'timestamp', 'user', 'comment', 'content'), 'inprop': ('protection',), 'rvlimit': 1, 'rvdir': 'older', 'titles': 'Test'},{'rawcontinue': ''},False)

the return json is:

{'error': {'code': 'readapidenied', 'info': 'You need read permission to use this module.', '*': 'See http://wiki.phoelex.com/api.php for API usage. Subscribe to the mediawiki-api-announce mailing list at <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api-announce> for notice of API deprecations and breaking changes.'}}

There's a similar problem in the java api which is fixed by calling their "setVersion" function - it's described in stackoverflow here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57146687/how-to-fix-readapidenied-error-on-mediawiki-api-in-java

So I'm guessing that something changed in the versions of Wiki that means running a query through the api must be done differently.