[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #25311: Replace PHP-serialized data with JSON in api.wordpress.org

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#25311: Replace PHP-serialized data with JSON in api.wordpress.org
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 Reporter:  scribu              |       Owner:
     Type:  task (blessed)      |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal              |   Milestone:  3.7
Component:  WordPress.org site  |     Version:
 Severity:  normal              |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-docs          |
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Changes (by johnbillion):

 * keywords:   => needs-docs


Comment:

 We'll need a blog post on Make/Core about this change due to the
 following.

 Plugins that hook into the `http_request_args` filter in order to filter
 out plugins or themes from the api.wordpress.org update checks will break
 update checks entirely due to expecting serialised data and instead
 getting JSON encoded data.

 I've [https://github.com/cftp/external-update-
 api/commit/281a0efbf6c2085cbd8c3d49814fce97c59a63b4 updated a plugin of
 mine] so it supports JSON encoded data and serialised data, but I only did
 this after getting PHP warnings and noticing that updates were broken.

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