[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #46314: JSON strings in postmeta issue

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#46314: JSON strings in postmeta issue
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 Reporter:  Jonua               |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement         |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal              |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Options, Meta APIs  |     Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal              |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                      |     Focuses:
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Comment (by Jonua):

 Thanks,

 great, the documentation is well done and clear. But unfortunately in
 practice I´m experiencing, that no plugin developer provides wp_slash()
 before update_post_meta(). Not even well know plugins. Also the ACF Plugin
 itself didn´t do this until I pointed this issue out to the developer and
 he agreed to my arguments and fixed it as well other plugin developers to.
 But I can not contact all plugin developers whose plugin does not use
 update_post_meta() correctly and breaking the meta values of other
 plugins.

 In practice, with update_post_meta() as it behave now, pure JSON strings
 can´t stored in meta. Plugin developers will not recognize that issue with
 update_post_meta(). As I mentioned, the point is that it is not expected
 that a function that should simply store a value in the database will
 change that value.

 thanks a lot,
 Johann

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