[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #5463: New XML-RPC method: wp.getCommentCount

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#5463: New XML-RPC method: wp.getCommentCount
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 Reporter:  josephscott  |        Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  enhancement  |       Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal       |    Milestone:  2.4      
Component:  XML-RPC      |      Version:           
 Severity:  normal       |   Resolution:           
 Keywords:  has-patch    |  
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Comment (by redsweater):

 I'm still a little troubled by the fact that this API is being driven by a
 single plugin with a very specific goal. It seems hasty to implement this
 very specific API for getting "counts", when probably what should be done
 is a longer-term thoughtful development of a general "comments" API which
 would allow fetching and editing them, as well.

 I have to admit this API is a lot better than the other one which is being
 superseded, but it will still look a little embarrassing in the API, I
 think, to have this strangely orphaned API for getting comment counts,
 with no other supporting API for comments.

 For instance, what if the API for getting posts had been driven from the
 start by some plugin that just happened to show you your "post count" ?
 Then we'd have this weird "getPostCount" method to support forever, and it
 might look kind of weird in the API. I feel like some restraint might be
 in order to keep the API from bloating in response to nifty plugins.

 [Rant Off] :)

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