[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:  westi   
     Type:  enhancement  |       Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal       |    Milestone:  2.4     
Component:  XML-RPC      |      Version:          
 Severity:  normal       |   Resolution:          
 Keywords:  has-patch    |  
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Comment (by josephscott):

 The general desire to expose this information certainly did come to the
 forefront because of this one tool.  But is that really a good reason to
 disregard it?  It isn't like no one else will be able to use this if they
 want to.

 I agree that an expanded comments API is a good idea, and this new method
 is a step that direction.  Before submitting this I considered skipping it
 entirely, but I didn't for two reasons.  One, there is obviously an
 interest in exposing this specific information (comment numbers) and the
 difference in the size of the data.  In order to come up with these
 numbers via a general comment editing API you'd have to send a
 significantly larger amount of data across the wire.

 I have every intention of adding more comment methods, it seems desirable
 to have the ability to fetch and modify and perhaps even create comments
 via XML-RPC.  But I'd rather not wait for that to be complete in order to
 start adding additional useful methods now.


 On the embedded query, I totally agree.  I was rather surprised not to see
 a function for doing this already.  Would a similar wp_get_comment_count()
 function in wp-includes/comment.php be reasonable?  I can put together a
 new patch to do that.

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