po plugin: respect documented convention to store pagestate

[git.ikiwiki.info.git] / IkiWiki / Plugin / external.pm

diff --git a/IkiWiki/Plugin/external.pm b/IkiWiki/Plugin/external.pm
index 4c2e5d2feb28ce5d842dcf75dab275a3e7855493..ba6c7d8b9f064577bcfb2c9e2716c7653da1fc72 100644 (file)
--- a/IkiWiki/Plugin/external.pm
+++ b/IkiWiki/Plugin/external.pm
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/perl
 # Support for external plugins written in other languages.
 #!/usr/bin/perl
 # Support for external plugins written in other languages.

-# Communication via XML RPC a pipe.
+# Communication via XML RPC to a pipe.

 # See externaldemo for an example of a plugin that uses this.
 package IkiWiki::Plugin::external;
 
 # See externaldemo for an example of a plugin that uses this.
 package IkiWiki::Plugin::external;
 


@@ -68,7 +68,22 @@ sub rpc_call ($$;@) { #{{{
                                        return @{$value->value};
                                }
                                elsif ($value->isa('RPC::XML::struct')) {
                                        return @{$value->value};
                                }
                                elsif ($value->isa('RPC::XML::struct')) {

-                                       return %{$value->value};
+                                       my %hash=%{$value->value};
+
+                                       # XML-RPC v1 does not allow for
+                                       # nil/null/None/undef values to be
+                                       # transmitted, so until
+                                       # XML::RPC::Parser honours v2
+                                       # (<nil/>), external plugins send
+                                       # a hash with one key "null" pointing
+                                       # to an empty string.
+                                       if (exists $hash{null} &&
+                                           $hash{null} eq "" &&
+                                           int(keys(%hash)) == 1) {
+                                               return undef;
+                                       }
+
+                                       return %hash;

                                }
                                else {
                                        return $value->value;
                                }
                                else {
                                        return $value->value;


@@ -92,6 +107,14 @@ sub rpc_call ($$;@) { #{{{
                                error("XML RPC call error, unknown function: $name");
                        }
 
                                error("XML RPC call error, unknown function: $name");
                        }
 

+                       # XML-RPC v1 does not allow for nil/null/None/undef
+                       # values to be transmitted, so until XML::RPC::Parser
+                       # honours v2 (<nil/>), send a hash with one key "null"
+                       # pointing to an empty string.
+                       if (! defined $ret) {
+                               $ret={"null" => ""};
+                       }
+

                        my $string=eval { RPC::XML::response->new($ret)->as_string };
                        if ($@ && ref $ret) {
                                # One common reason for serialisation to
                        my $string=eval { RPC::XML::response->new($ret)->as_string };
                        if ($@ && ref $ret) {
                                # One common reason for serialisation to


@@ -194,8 +217,7 @@ sub hook ($@) { #{{{
        delete $params{call};
 
        IkiWiki::hook(%params, call => sub {
        delete $params{call};
 
        IkiWiki::hook(%params, call => sub {

-               my $ret=IkiWiki::Plugin::external::rpc_call($plugin, $callback, @_);
-               return $ret;
+               IkiWiki::Plugin::external::rpc_call($plugin, $callback, @_);

        });
 } #}}}
 
        });
 } #}}}