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.

[josephscott]

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

[Nazgul]

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.

[ryan]

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.

[Nazgul]

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

[josephscott]

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?

[josephscott]

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.

[westi]

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