[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #39996: Grant clients more liberty in setting 'template' attribute

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#39996: Grant clients more liberty in setting 'template' attribute
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 Reporter:  danielbachhuber               |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)                  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                        |   Milestone:  4.7.4
Component:  REST API                      |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                        |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch needs-unit-tests  |     Focuses:
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Comment (by jnylen0):

 Replying to [comment:4 swissspidy]:
 > Ideally, we fix `wp_update_post()`, remove the call to
 `handle_template()` and add a new test for this behaviour.

 Couldn't we just unset `$data['template']` from the update if it's the
 same as the current value?  This would skip both passing it to
 `wp_update_post` and calling `handle_template`.

 > the meta entry would get updated ''twice''  because the `update_item()`
 method calls `WP_REST_Posts_Controller::handle_template()`.

 It sounds like this is probably already happening during any normal post
 update, no?

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