[aur-dev] [PATCH] RPC: Coerce numeric values into integers

[Lukas Fleischer]

On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 07:57:20PM -0400, Dave Reisner wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 01:51:44AM +0200, Lukas Fleischer wrote:
> > Coerce "ID", "FirstSubmitted" and "LastModified" into integers to ensure
> > json_encode() serializes them as numeric values. This means that there
> > will be a minor API break. There doesn't seem to be a better way to do
> > this properly, though. Fixes FS#25693.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Lukas Fleischer <archlinux at cryptocrack.de>
> > ---
> >  web/lib/aurjson.class.php |    3 +++
> >  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/web/lib/aurjson.class.php b/web/lib/aurjson.class.php
> > index 277c824..ad99529 100644
> > --- a/web/lib/aurjson.class.php
> > +++ b/web/lib/aurjson.class.php
> > @@ -126,6 +126,9 @@ class AurJSON {
> >              while ( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result) ) {
> >                  $name = $row['Name'];
> >                  $row['URLPath'] = URL_DIR . substr($name, 0, 2) . "/" . $name . "/" . $name . ".tar.gz";
> > +                $row['ID'] = intval($row['ID']);
> > +                $row['FirstSubmitted'] = intval($row['FirstSubmitted']);
> > +                $row['LastModified'] = intval($row['LastModified']);
> >  
> >                  if ($type == 'info') {
> >                      $search_data = $row;
> > -- 
> > 1.7.6
> > 
> 
> I suppose I was a bit hasty in my bug report. If we're going to break
> things, can we break even more? There's no reason we couldn't also
> coerce: CategoryID, NumVotes, and OutOfDate (which might be better as a
> boolean).

Yeah, if we break stuff, we should do it properly :) I'll have a look at
the other fields. And I'm already looking forward to getting death
threats from all the AUR helper developers around...