[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #10619: Importing WXR breaks serialized postmeta value

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#10619: Importing WXR breaks serialized postmeta value
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 Reporter:  JonathanRogers  |       Owner:  westi                     
     Type:  defect (bug)    |      Status:  accepted                  
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  2.9                       
Component:  Import          |     Version:  2.8.4                     
 Severity:  normal          |    Keywords:  has-patch needs-unit-tests
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Changes (by westi):

  * keywords:  has-patch => has-patch needs-unit-tests
  * owner:  => westi
  * status:  new => accepted


Comment:

 I think znafor's patch is the best solution here.

 On export we put the raw data from the db into the xml file.

 Normally when getting the post meta we would have called
 {{{maybe_unserialize}}} on the value before returning - therefore we
 should replicate that here before passing to add post meta so that we have
 the same consistent behaviour.

 Could someone generate a small WXR file with some post meta in to test
 this with and report back on sucess/failure

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