XMLRPC should expose draft status of entries

[redsweater]

Although getRecentPosts returns items whose publish status is "draft," there is no indication in the XML attributes of the status of the item. This leaves remote clients in a tricky position when it comes to relating the status of the post to the user.

I propose a new boolean attribute "wp_draft" be added to these posts, to definitely convey whether the post is a draft or not.

Would it be helpful to know the other possible states? Ryan mentioned 5: ​http://boren.nu/archives/2007/09/05/post-status-transitions/

• publish
• draft
• private
• future
• pending

See also:

​http://trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/wp-admin/includes/schema.php?rev=6075#L103

Not all of those are applicable to posts though.

Most of those are legacy. Only inherit is still used among those in the schema but not in my list, and it really isn't a public status.

If they're legacy, can't we take them out?

In -trunk I see the following potential post status values for a post:

• draft
• private
• pending
• publish
• future

For pages there are the following potential values:

• draft
• private
• publish

There were all the possible states I was able to put posts and pages in using the regular web admin. Does this seem like a reasonable list?

The diff adds the 'post_status' field to data returned from metaWeblog.getPost and metaWeblog.getRecentPosts. Just as a note, wp.getPage already provides this for pages in the 'page_status' field.

(In [6358]) Expose post_status over xmlrpc. Fixes #4982 props josephscott