maintenance/storage/checkStorage.php uses Revision::getText in line 446, but it has been deprecated by wikidata team in favour of getContent()
It should probably set $wgContentHandlerTextFallback to 'serialize' before calling ContentHandler::getContentText(). But why isn't the fallback available as an extra parameter of that method?
Version: 1.21.x
Severity: normal
Added a new parameter to ContentHandler::getContentText() in changeset 45936
Updated checkStorage.php in changeset 45937
This last one assumes the text table will always store the serialized object. Needs review by someone familiar with Wikidata contenthandlers.
ContentHandler::getContentText() is really just a stop gap when you need "some kind of text". If you already know that you want the serialized text, use $content->serialize().
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/45937 (Gerrit Change Id632867207960ba5c25d2b6eaba06f051fb1e681) | change APPROVED and MERGED [by jenkins-bot]