[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #3994: MetaWeblog metaWeblog.getCategories problem

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#3994: MetaWeblog metaWeblog.getCategories problem
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 Reporter:  whilo                                                       |        Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  defect                                                      |       Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal                                                      |    Milestone:  2.4      
Component:  XML-RPC                                                     |      Version:  2.2      
 Severity:  normal                                                      |   Resolution:           
 Keywords:  xmlrpc, compliance, specs, clients, metaweblog, categories  |  
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Changes (by dougal):

  * keywords:  => xmlrpc, compliance, specs, clients, metaweblog,
               categories

Comment:

 This mis-implementation has been out there for several years now, so the
 major clients are either explicitly or implicitly working around it. We
 need to test the clients against a 'fixed' version of the method and make
 sure nothing breaks. If the major clients don't break with the change, we
 can get a fix committed. Otherwise, we might need to coordinate with the
 client authors to see how we can smooth out a more gradual migration to
 spec compliance.

 The spec is vague. One must assume that the category name is what should
 be used as the 'name' portion of the parent struct, though the category
 slug might be a good candidate, as well. The use of an array probably
 stemmed from the fact that the category portion of a post struct is
 implemented as an array in the spec.

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