[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #35185: Unable to create Post via XMLRPC after upgrading to 4.4

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#35185: Unable to create Post via XMLRPC after upgrading to 4.4
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 Reporter:  Sandeep.Prakash  |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)     |      Status:  reviewing
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  4.4.1
Component:  XML-RPC          |     Version:  4.4
 Severity:  normal           |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                   |     Focuses:
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Comment (by dd32):

 This is caused by [35509] #16980 cc @wonderboymusic

 In short; `mw_newPost` would previously receive:
 {{{
 Array
 (
     [title] => Wonderful Thing
     [description] => This is the main page content
 )
 }}}

 it now receives:
 {{{
 Array
 (
     [wp_password] =>
     [permaLink] =>
     [mt_keywords] =>
     [mt_text_more] =>
     [dateCreated] =>
     [link] =>
     [wp_slug] =>
     [mt_allow_comments] =>
     [date_created_gmt] =>
     [mt_excerpt] =>
     [title] => Wonderful Thing
     [description] => This is the main page content
     [wp_author_display_name] =>
     [wp_author_id] =>
     [mt_allow_pings] =>
     [categories] =>
     [userid] =>
     [postid] =>
 )
 }}}

 The null/empty values were previously stripped out, which I can understand
 would be the expected behaviour.

 With this change, it looks like every instance of `isset(
 $content_struct[..] )` needs to be changed to `! empty(
 $content_struct[...] )`.

 I could also argue that the XMLRPC client shouldn't be sending those
 fields if it doesn't intend to specify a value, which means the
 `WordPress::API` CPAN module needs updating.

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