Nearby item descriptions not working in v2.5.0 (beta)

Posting on behalf of @VojtechDostal who is unable to do so at the moment:

Item descriptions in Nearby Places do not work for him after the recent patch. For instance, this description used to beinstance of (P31)(which admittedly isn’t the best description, haha, but still) but now only says ?

[nicolas-raoul]

Our query works (giving “usedlost”) if the language is cs. But it also works (giving “Seosko gospodarstvo”) when using the language codes iamsurethiscodedoesnotexist.

So it is not the problem I was thinking about. There must be another problem. Could someone get the HTTP request/response when that happens? It would tell us on what side is the problem. Thanks!

[misaochan]

Errr… I think I might have solved this while working on Nearby uploads. It appears that we are calling place.getDescription().getText(); to get the description, but getDescription() actually returns an enum (which is used for selecting the icon), and I don’t think getText() is converting that appropriately. Instead, AFAIK, what we really want is the longDescription .

The PR I submitted solves the problem for me. I had initially included it in my feature branch, but figured I should submit this to master now so people can test it and to prevent others from wasting further time on it (if my PR indeed works).

Could anyone (especially those with a non-English phone language) help test and see? Thanks!