[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #17604: wp.uploadFile overwrite doesn't work

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#17604: wp.uploadFile overwrite doesn't work
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 Reporter:  M66B                 |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)         |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal               |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  XML-RPC              |     Version:  3.2
 Severity:  normal               |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch 3.6-early  |     Focuses:
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Comment (by marco_hoyer):

 Hi there, what's the matter with this bug? I would like to have unique
 media names in my wordpress and thus overwrite existing files but if I set
 overwrite=True via xml-rpc api, strange things happen. Wordpress creates
 files with "wpid-" prefix, which seems to be caused by the two lines
 mentioned above. They also don't get overwritten but created several times
 with the same strange name.

 My Wordpress: Version 4.1.1

 My request:
 {{{
 POST /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.1
 Host: test.shop.de
 Accept-Encoding: gzip
 User-Agent: xmlrpclib.py/1.0.1 (by www.pythonware.com)
 Content-Type: text/xml
 Content-Length: 23651

 <?xml version='1.0'?>
 <methodCall>
 <methodName>wp.uploadFile</methodName>
 <params>
 <param>
 <value><int>0</int></value>
 </param>
 <param>
 <value><string>my-user</string></value>
 </param>
 <param>
 <value><string>my-secret</string></value>
 </param>
 <param>
 <value><struct>
 <member>
 <name>bits</name>
 <value><base64>
 ...
 </base64></value>
 </member>
 <member>
 <name>type</name>
 <value><string>image/jpeg</string></value>
 </member>
 <member>
 <name>name</name>
 <value><string>test.jpg</string></value>
 </member>
 <member>
 <name>overwrite</name>
 <value><boolean>1</boolean></value>
 </member>
 </struct></value>
 </param>
 </params>
 </methodCall>
 }}}

 Created Files:
 {{{
 {'type': 'image/jpeg', 'id': '571', 'file': 'wpid-test.jpg'}
 {'type': 'image/jpeg', 'id': '572', 'file': 'wpid-test.jpg'}
 {'type': 'image/jpeg', 'id': '573', 'file': 'wpid-test.jpg'}
 {'type': 'image/jpeg', 'id': '574', 'file': 'wpid-test.jpg'}
 {'type': 'image/jpeg', 'id': '575', 'file': 'wpid-test.jpg'}
 }}}

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