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

[Joseph Scott]

On Nov 9, 2007, at 10:54 AM, Joe Cheng wrote:

>> That said I would be willing to sort of fix it in a different way.
>> Add a fourth parameter to metaWeblog.getCategories that would
>> indicate that we should return data struct of structs just like the
>> spec says.
>
> Personally, I wouldn't even bother with that. To know to pass that  
> value, a client implementer would have to know that this issue with  
> the spec exists, at which point they might as well just treat the  
> return value as an array (or at least sniff the returned value to  
> see if it's a struct or array).

I think Joe and Daniel making compelling points on why we shouldn't  
even bother touching this.

Given the amount of time and inertia with the way things have been  
it's hard to see much benefit.

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Joseph Scott
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