XML-RPC: Edit post type templates

[swissspidy]

#18375 made page templates available for all post types. #38698 reflected this in the REST API. Now, we need to do the same in the XML-RPC API.

We should be able to edit the templates for any post type.

There's also the wp.getPageTemplates method, but I'm not sure yet how adding post type support would look like there.

[helen]

Who's owning this?

[swissspidy]

I could own it as I've provided the patch and opened the ticket, but there's not much more that I could bring to it right now.

It would be great if @dd32 could review this, as he has looked at XML-RPC stuff in the past.

[dd32]

I've glanced through the patch and it looks probably correct, however looking at the patch, I don't see anything that tells clients what templates it can assign to each post type, or validation that it's an actual template specified.

Testing XML-RPC is not exactly fun, and not something I do willingly.. and wouldn't be a real-world test, only that the logic seems to work - ie. I'm not the right person to test this.

I don't personally see benefit in adding features (this is an enhancement to me) to XML-RPC which we've been ignoring for quite some time, I'd be fine with this landing in 4.8 or "use the rest api" as a resolve here.

[swissspidy]

Thanks for your feedback! I'm fine with moving this out of the milestone then.

[markoheijnen]

Thanks for creating the ticket and yes it's more an enhancement then a bug. But I will look into it for 4.8 as I do believe keeping updates to the XML-RPC is a good thing to do.

[swissspidy]

Closing due to lack of interest.