[wp-xmlrpc] Wordpress version from xmlrpc?

[Carlos Moffat]

On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 10:29 -0700, Joseph Scott wrote:
> On Jan 14, 2008, at 10:12 AM, Joe Cheng wrote:
> 
> > So far we've only been interested in the distinction between 2.1.x  
> > and earlier, and 2.2 and later. We just look at whether WP API is  
> > supported to tell us that. I'm sure it's only a matter of time though.
> 
> 
> WLW is a little bit different in this regard because you also have  
> the wlwmanifest.xml, which we used to turn on mt_keywords support,  
> which didn't show up in WP until 2.3.
> 
> 
> >
> > If folks are legitimately worried about exposing the WP version,  
> > then that's a good argument for keeping it behind authenticated XML- 
> > RPC calls.
> 
> 
> 
> Keeping it behind an auth'd call was going to be my strategy for  
> short circuiting those that were concerned about exposing a version  
> number :-)
> 
> I realize that it one more step (or more) clients would have to make  
> in order to gather details about a blogs features.  What if we  
> cheated a little bit here.  Carlos Moffat asked about having the time  
> zone offset that is set in the WP options being exposed.  Since it  
> would be rather a waste to have an entire method just for that, I was  
> thinking of adding a more general wp.getBlogOptions() method.  Such a  
> method would take an array of strings, where each string was a blog  
> option that the client wanted to have a value for.  The method would  
> then return a struct, with the key as the option string (same as the  
> one provided in the array).  We could make the versioning details be  
> part of that by considering it a blog option.
> 
> Something like this:
> 
> wp.getBlogOptions(
> 	blog_id,
> 	username,
> 	password,
> 	array('blogname', 'blogdescription', 'gmt_offset', 'xmlrpc_version',  
> 'blog_version')
> )
> 
> which would return:
> 
> {
> 	'blogname': 'My Cool Blog',
> 	'blogdescription': 'Just another WordPress weblog',
> 	'gmt_offset': -7,
> 	'xmlrpc_version': 12345,
> 	'blog_version': '2.4-bleeding'
> }
> 
> In order for something like that to work we'd have to firm up the  
> exact option string values and such of course.
> 
> 

This sounds great. 

Carlos

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