[wp-xmlrpc] exposing draft posts and listing all posts

[Joseph Scott]

When a post is started in wp-admin and saved as a draft, it doesn't  
appear to ever get exposed via any of the current XML-RPC methods.   
If you happen to know the post_id for a draft you can still get at it  
with metaWeblog.getPost, but finding out about that post in the first  
place is the problem.  Since we now expose the post_status field I  
don't see why metaWeblog.getRecentPosts couldn't include drafts as  
well.  Anyone have objections/concerns to that?

Along with this I've been thinking about the situation with getting  
recent posts.  Seems like it would be handy to have a way to get all  
of the valid post_id's, along with a little bit of info about each,  
say the date_created_gmt and post_status fields.  Like this:

[
	1: {
		date_created_gmt: 20080706T00:43:55,
		post_status: draft
		},
	22: {
		date_created_gmt: 20080706T00:43:55
		post_status: publish
		}
]

The index would be the post_id, with then a tiny bit of info about  
each post.  Since this could potentially be a pretty long list of  
data (for blogs with 10,000+ posts) the amount of data besides the  
post_id should be kept to a minimum.  My first thought was to do  
nothing but provide an array of post_ids, but then thought that was  
probably a bit too sparse.

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Joseph Scott
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