[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #25090: XML-RPC API for Customization and Extensibility Needed

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#25090: XML-RPC API for Customization and Extensibility Needed
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 Reporter:  kailasa          |      Owner:
     Type:  feature request  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal           |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  XML-RPC          |    Version:
 Severity:  normal           |   Keywords:
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 I recently hit a wall with wp.getPosts because of what is, IMHO, a bad
 decision to put the following code into the xmlrpc server.

 /wp-includes/class-wp-xmlrpc-server.php


 {{{
 // Consider future posts as published

         if ( $post_fields['post_status'] === 'future' )
                 $post_fields['post_status'] = 'publish';

 }}}

 We have other unique requirements for behaviors of the XML-RPC server,
 which I won't detail here for now... suffice it to say that the issue is
 really that this part of the framework does not follow the model of
 customization/extensibility.

 That code that conflates "future" with "publish" should really be a
 developer option that we can add to our theme/functions, etc. such that it
 customizes the xmlrpc behaviors, is preserved on upgrade and does not
 require core to manage X number of unique xmlrpc requirements. Miss
 Sally's blog may want one thing. Macho Mainstream Online Magazine may have
 some serious heavy lifting to do with XML-RPC. MyShoppingCenter in
 Wordpress could have very unique needs. DesktopDeveloper.app gives remote
 access to WP on your desktop via XML-RPC (we do this now) You don't want
 to be adding all these to the core.

 The way themes work and  should also work for xmlrpc. If someone wants
 "future" to equal "publish" he can make is so without touching the core.
 Or perhaps some plug-in that would allow us to add-subtract etc to the
 core XML-RPC. Many values have multi-parameter options which are now hard-
 wired into that one file.

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