[wp-xmlrpc] metaWeblog.getCategories, not returning struct of structs, problem?

[Daniel Jalkut]

 From my point of view, I don't think this will particularly affect my  
users in any way, because unless a user fights hard to prevent it,  
MarsEdit will always use "mt.getCategoryList" instead of  
"metaWeblog.getCategories" when fetching categories for a WordPress  
blog.

I recognize that there may be clients out there who rely on the  
MetaWeblog API subset. I think the question is if there are such  
clients, do *they* care about this?

Daniel

On Nov 8, 2007, at 11:25 PM, Joseph Scott wrote:

>
> We've got a ticket from earlier this year about  
> metaWeblog.getCategories:
>
> 	http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3994
>
> The complaint is that we aren't following the spec:
>
> 	http://www.xmlrpc.com/metaWeblogApi
>
> which says that it shall return a struct of structs.  I've confirmed  
> that what WP does in return an array of structs, which is what the  
> author of the ticket wants changed.
>
> I've not been approached by any client vendors to change this to  
> match the standard, indeed this ticket is the only mention that I've  
> seen of it.  Dougal may have some history to add to this though.
>
> Are any of the XML-RPC vendors that work with WordPress concerned  
> about this?  Given the sometimes fragile of these types of things  
> that have been around for awhile I'm inclined to leave things they  
> way they are and close this ticket.
>
> --
> Joseph Scott
> http://joseph.randomnetworks.com/
>
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