This functionality was commented out in
78946b9bdb for MDL-20204 back in 2009.
Since then it has been wasting cycles performing utterly pointless
preg_match and preg_replace calls.
The decision has been made to deprecate it in stables, and remove it in
3.2.
This was a complex change requiring three new functions:
file_merge_files_from_draft_area_into_filearea - To just add files from a draft area into a real one (just adding or updating, not deleting)
file_merge_draft_area_into_draft_area - To merge files from two draft areas, used by the latest for creating a draft area with all the original files plus the new ones.
file_overwrite_existing_draftfile - Required to update existing files not losing metadata or references.
The whole process is the following:
User uploads a file (upload.php)
Client gets a new draftid A containing the file only (return of upload.php)
Client requests to merge that draftid in the user's private files (core_user_add_user_private_files)
Server prepares a new UNUSED draftid B from existing area
Server merges A into B
Server saves the draft B into the final area
Moodle 3.2 and up will require PHP >= 5.6.5. Hopefully some day we'll
have this centralized with MDL-39007, just it's not done yet.
Thanks to Stephen Bourget for raising this!
There was a problem with core\update\code_manager::unzip_plugin_file()
if it was used to extract a plugin package into a non-empty target
directory and the plugin package root folder was being renamed at the
same time.
The problem was caused by the underlying helper method
rename_extracted_rootdir() that worked only for ZIPs extracted to an
empty temporary location. When the plugin was extracted to the actual
dirroot with other existing plugin folders present, the method failed
badly.
The solution in the patch is to always extract the ZIP into a temporary
empty location, perform the eventual root renaming there, and only then
move the extracted contents to the final destination. Additionally we
are changing the behaviour of the rename_extracted_rootdir() method so
that now it throws exception if the plugin package contains multiple
root folders (it should not happen in normal situations as such a plugin
would not pass the pre-install validation).
Unit tests did not catch this bug before because in the tests, the
target directory had been empty. Now we are adding a new directory
"aaa_another" to the target location to test in more realistic
environment. Tests for the new behaviour of the renaming method are
added, too.
p.s. I noticed that moodle_exception class was not imported into the
namespace and this is fixed now too (and covered with unit tests).
PostgreSQL 9.1 allows hex formating for binary which is handled better
by pg_query_params().
Getting bytea isn't required on connection, it can be used as pg_field_type()
when binary needs to be checked.
