r21789 creates a breaking change in behavior for get_submit_button

[vhauri]

A recent change made to get_submit_button (http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/21789/trunk/wp-admin/includes/template.php) has caused an unwanted change in behavior for a button on a site I maintain. Previously, the string passed as the second argument, $type, was matched against a switch statement with several unique cases. In the event of a non-match in the switch, the default action prior to [21789] was to assign the parameter's value as the $class string without altering it.

The change introduced in [21789] now breaks a string into individual classes, which prevents the use of the unique class names within a string of additional class names. For example, the string button-secondary save-button action used to generate a class string in HTML of button-secondary save-button action, but now generates the unexpected result button save-button action (note lack of '-secondary') because it matches against the following if check on line 1600:

if ( 'secondary' === $t || 'button-secondary' === $t )

It should be noted that the phpdoc associated with the function does not name the use case that I was employing, but that the behavior of passing in a space-separated class string has previously resulted in the string being passed through untouched (and the comment here indicates it was known and expected behavior (http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/wp-admin/includes/template.php?rev=21781#L1649), and this is no longer the case. Not sure if this is worth a programmatic fix, or if it might just be worth noting in the function docblock that certain classes are now 'reserved' and cannot be passed into the $type string.

Could you provide a specific example, with expected and actual results? Could make it easier to understand.

Clarification of above example:

Function call:

$button_str = get_submit_button( __( 'delete selected users' ), 'button-secondary save-button action', false, false, array( 'id' => 'doaction' ) );

Expected value of $button_str:

<input type="submit" name="" id="doaction" class="button-secondary save-button action" value="delete selected users">

Actual value of $button_str:

<input type="submit" name="" id="doaction" class="button save-button action" value="delete selected users">

Still a little confused, perhaps because the ticket sounds like it's a general breakage. What I'm seeing here is that button-secondary and secondary will silently not come through as classes if specified in type, because they are now replaced by just using the generic button class.