How do you use special character ids from an API request?

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Consider the following AJAX request:

$.ajax({
    url: 'http://www.minecraftwiki.net/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespaces&format=json',
    dataType: 'json',
    async: false,
    success: function(siResponse) {
        for(var ns in siResponse.query.namespaces) {
            if(siResponse.query.namespaces[ns].id >= 0) {
                if(siResponse.query.namespaces[ns].id != namespaces.length) {
                    break;
                }
                if(siResponse.query.namespaces[ns].id === 0) {
                    namespaces[siResponse.query.namespaces[ns].id] = 'Main';
                } else {
                    namespaces[siResponse.query.namespaces[ns].id] = siResponse.query.namespaces[ns].&asterisk;;
                }
                movelog[siResponse.query.namespaces[ns].id] = 0;
                protectlog[siResponse.query.namespaces[ns].id] = 0;
            }
        }
    }
});

Here's the API response

Now, I could just use .canonical and rename the ids 4 and 5 from the default "Project" to "Minecraft Wiki", but I would like to use the "*": value instead. Is that possible, or is this just a bad wiki setting?

You should really get rid of `async: false`. You don't need it. Really. Trust me. — ThiefMaster, Jan 02 '13 at 23:12
I looked it up, because honestly I didn't know what that did. I just built off example ajax calls. json doesn't even support that lol. Thanks for the tip. — Kanegasi, Jan 03 '13 at 03:01

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:56

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To the best of my knowledge: no, you cannot begin an id with an asterisk, number, or other special characters. See this post for more info.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:56

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answered Jan 02 '13 at 23:07

Nick Tomlin

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 02 '13 at 23:11

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You need to use foo['*'] to access the field instead of foo.* which would be a SyntaxError.

So in your case it would be siResponse.query.namespaces[ns]['*']

answered Jan 02 '13 at 23:11

ThiefMaster

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Thanks. Worked like a charm. – Kanegasi Jan 03 '13 at 02:55

How do you use special character ids from an API request?

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