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action=wbformatvalue

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Formats DataValues.

Specific parameters:

Other general parameters are available.

generate: The desired output format to generate.; One of the following values: text/html, text/html; disposition=verbose, text/html; disposition=verbose-preview, text/plain, text/x-wiki; Default: text/x-wiki
datavalue: The data to format. This has to be the JSON serialization of a DataValue object.; This parameter is required.
datatype: The value's data type. This is distinct from the value's type; One of the following values: commonsMedia, contentmath, external-id, geo-shape, globe-coordinate, localMedia, math, mathml, monolingualtext, quantity, string, tabular-data, time, url, wikibase-item, wikibase-property
property: Property ID the data value belongs to, should be used instead of the datatype parameter.
options: The options the formatter should use. Provided as a JSON object.

Examples:

Format a simple string value.: api.php?action=wbformatvalue&datavalue=%7B%22value%22%3A%22hello%22%2C%22type%22%3A%22string%22%7D [open in sandbox]
Format a string value as a URL in HTML.: api.php?action=wbformatvalue&datavalue=%7B%22value%22%3A%22http%3A%5C%2F%5C%2Facme.org%22%2C%22type%22%3A%22string%22%7D&datatype=url&generate=text%2Fhtml [open in sandbox]
Format a time value as plain text, automatically showing the calendar model if needed.: api.php?action=wbformatvalue&datavalue=%7B%22value%22%3A%7B%22time%22%3A%22%2B1879-03-14T00%3A00%3A00Z%22%2C%22timezone%22%3A0%2C%22before%22%3A0%2C%22after%22%3A0%2C%22precision%22%3A11%2C%22calendarmodel%22%3A%22http%3A%5C%2F%5C%2Fwww.wikidata.org%5C%2Fentity%5C%2FQ1985727%22%7D%2C%22type%22%3A%22time%22%7D&datatype=time&generate=text%2Fplain&options=%7B%22showcalendar%22%3A%22auto%22%7D [open in sandbox]