XML-RPC wp.getOptions : post_thumbnail option value is returned as boolean, and not string.

[rvdalen]

Hi,

I think I found a bug in the Wordpress XML-RPC wp.getOptions method.

I call the wp.getOptions method with an empty option whitelist to get
a list of all the options. The result is that all option values are strings, except for the 'post_thumbnail' option, which specifies its value as boolean.

I am not sure if this is a bug.

I have attached a patch file with the fix. Sorry, I don not have SVN tools installed, so I used the patch command to create a patch (unified format).

Regards
--Rouan

[rvdalen]

patch for class-wp-xmlrpc-server.php

[markoheijnen]

Hey Rouan, Thanks for your patch but I guess in this case it's more a feature then a bug. The problem here is that even if we want to change the type that we still can't really fix it without to possible break clients that already using it.

I do believe that this option is the only one with a boolean value so for me this would still work. I'm curious what your issue is with this.

[rvdalen]

Hi Marko,

I am using a Haskell library for reading the results, and it has to have the same type for all the option values (in my case String). I think I can work around this. I just thought that it might be a bug and I would check that out first because all the other property values are strings.

Thanks for the quick reply.

Regards.
--Rouan

Replying to markoheijnen:

Hey Rouan, Thanks for your patch but I guess in this case it's more a feature then a bug. The problem here is that even if we want to change the type that we still can't really fix it without to possible break clients that already using it.

I do believe that this option is the only one with a boolean value so for me this would still work. I'm curious what your issue is with this.

[markoheijnen]

I wish I could fix it for you but this is not a bug.

A good solution is fixing the library but I guess it does it for a reason. Not sure since I don't know the library.
A bad solution could be creating your own class and extending wp_xmlrpc_server and use the filter wp_xmlrpc_server_class to pass your class name.