site-options notoption only queried and never set in not multisite wordpress installs

[Grzegorz.Janoszka]

We have notoptions mechanism that works well. WordPress core does also query $network_id:notoptions regardless of multiste. However, such option is set only in multisite installs. As a result, if you are not running multisite, you are only querying for $network_id:notoptions and you never set it. It beats the idea of notoptions - we read it, but we never set it - what's the point?

Possible solutions:

• read $network_id:notoptions only in multisite installs
• set $network_id:notoptions also in not multisite installs

[soulseekah]

Hey, welcome back @Grzegorz.Janoszka!

Thank you for your ticket!

get_network_option is an alias for get_site_option, which is called in core in many places. In non-multisite installs, $network_id is set to 1 by default.

These calls are absolutely valid, and $network_id:notoptions is indeed not being set. There's a is_multisite() condition which prevents the $network_id:notoptions logic, directs the call to plain old get_options which stores non-existing options in the plain old notoptions cache.

In single-site setups the multisite code bits are never called apart from wp_cache_get which is deterministic there. It seems safe to omit the wp_cache_get call since it's never being set to anything useful but called multiple times from core. It does set wp_cache_set( $notoptions_key, $notoptions, 'site-options' ); to an empty array in single-site installs, which is also useless, since it will always remain as such.

43599.diff stubs these calls out. Might need unit-tests to make sure that notoptions caching works in multisite mode as it is supposed to, and that it's always empty in single-sites. Or we can risk it :)

[desrosj]

This ticket has not received any attention during the 5.2 cycle. With beta 1 tomorrow, going to punt this to 5.3.

[davidbaumwald]

@SergeyBiryukov Can you review this one and decide whether it's ready for version 5.3 Beta 1, due out tomorrow? If not, we can punt this to a future milestone.

[davidbaumwald]

This ticket has not received any attention during the 5.3 cycle. With 5.3 Beta 1 now releasing, the deadline for enhancements is passed. I'm moving this to Future Release.

[Grzegorz.Janoszka]

There is a patch, but this ticket hasn't been touched for several years. Can we have any progress please?