Fix wporg_last_updated always being empty for active plugins - #547
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get_wporg_data() fetched wporg_status from the wp.org plugin-info API, but ignored the last_updated field that response already contains and instead made a second, separate request to plugins.trac.wordpress.org to scrape it from an RSS feed. That endpoint is now aggressively rate-limiting requests (returning 429), which the code didn't handle (it only special-cased 404), so wporg_last_updated silently ended up empty for every active plugin while wporg_status kept working fine. Reuse the last_updated value already returned by the plugin-info API for active plugins, and only fall back to the trac scrape for plugins that are closed / no longer listed there, since that's the only remaining source of the date in that case. Extracted the date formatting (including the pre-WP-5.3 wp_date() fallback) into a shared helper so both paths stay in sync. Fixes #546 Co-Authored-By: Pascal Birchler <pascal.birchler@gmail.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XJKpQWPBndWtH941TVs7mw
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe plugin metadata path now accepts only parseable WordPress.org API dates, falls back to parseable trac dates, and leaves ChangesWordPress.org plugin metadata
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Pull request overview
This PR fixes wp plugin list --fields=...,wporg_last_updated returning an empty wporg_last_updated for active WordPress.org plugins by reusing the last_updated value from the primary plugins API response, avoiding the rate-limited Trac RSS scrape in the common case.
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- Uses
api.wordpress.orgplugin-infolast_updatedfor active plugins instead of always scraping the Trac RSS log. - Keeps the Trac RSS scrape as a fallback for closed/non-listed plugins where the plugins API no longer provides update data.
- Extracts date formatting into a shared private helper to keep both paths consistent (including the pre-WP-5.3 fallback).
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Reuses plugins API last_updated for active plugins and centralizes wp.org date formatting logic with a Trac fallback. |
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src/Plugin_Command.php:1163
strtotime( $xml_pub_date[0] ) ?: nullhas the same edge case where a valid timestamp of0is treated as failure; also casting to string avoids relying on implicit SimpleXMLElement conversion.
if ( $xml_pub_date ) {
$data['last_updated'] = $this->format_wporg_last_updated( strtotime( $xml_pub_date[0] ) ?: null );
}
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Two new scenarios lock in the fix from the previous commit: - An active plugin's wporg_last_updated must resolve correctly from the plugin-info API response even when the trac log request is rate-limited (HTTP 429 with no pubDate in the body) -- this is the exact failure mode reported in #546. - wporg_last_updated still falls back to scraping the trac log when the plugin-info API response happens to omit the last_updated field. Co-Authored-By: Pascal Birchler <pascal.birchler@gmail.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XJKpQWPBndWtH941TVs7mw
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In `@src/Plugin_Command.php`:
- Around line 1131-1137: Ensure the plugin metadata flow uses
plugin_data['last_updated'] via format_wporg_last_updated when available, while
preserving the existing Trac-log fallback when that value is absent; keep both
API-date and fallback behavior intact.
- Line 1179: Update format_wporg_last_updated() to handle wp_date() returning
false before returning, while preserving the declared string return type. Reuse
the existing get_date_from_gmt() fallback when available, or provide an explicit
string fallback.
- Around line 1135-1136: Update the get_plugin_info() handling around
format_wporg_last_updated so last_updated is validated and parsed before
assigning data or returning early. Accept only a successfully parsed value,
preserving the Trac fallback for invalid or empty values and avoiding
strtotime() errors for non-string input.
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- Cast the plugin-info API's last_updated field to string before passing it to strtotime(), since the API client's return type doesn't carry precise array value types. - Correct format_wporg_last_updated()'s docblock: wp_date() and get_date_from_gmt() can both return false, so the return type is string|false, matching the last_updated shape already documented on get_wporg_data(). Co-Authored-By: Pascal Birchler <pascal.birchler@gmail.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XJKpQWPBndWtH941TVs7mw
get_wporg_data() previously fed a null timestamp to format_wporg_last_updated() whenever the plugin-info API's last_updated string failed to parse. Both wp_date() and get_date_from_gmt() treat a null timestamp as "now", so an unparseable date would have silently rendered as today's date instead of falling back to the trac log the way an entirely missing last_updated field already does. Addresses a CodeRabbit review comment on #547. Co-Authored-By: Pascal Birchler <pascal.birchler@gmail.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XJKpQWPBndWtH941TVs7mw
Two related Copilot review findings on #547: - strtotime( ... ) ?: null treats a legitimate timestamp of 0 (the Unix epoch) as "unparsed", falling back to null. Check for false explicitly instead. - format_wporg_last_updated() formatted a null $pub_date by letting wp_date()/get_date_from_gmt() default to the current time, so an unparseable trac pubDate silently rendered as today's date. Both callers now only invoke format_wporg_last_updated() with an already-validated timestamp, so it no longer needs to accept (or special-case) null at all. Co-Authored-By: Pascal Birchler <pascal.birchler@gmail.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XJKpQWPBndWtH941TVs7mw
phpstan-strict-rules forbids casting a mixed-typed value to string, since PHPStan can't verify it's safely stringable. Use is_string() to narrow the plugin-info API's last_updated field instead of casting it, and drop the redundant cast on the trac RSS pubDate element, which was already accepted by strtotime() before this fix (SimpleXMLElement implements __toString()). Co-Authored-By: Pascal Birchler <pascal.birchler@gmail.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XJKpQWPBndWtH941TVs7mw
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Approving. The fix is right: get_wporg_data() already has last_updated from the plugin-info API and now uses it (src/Plugin_Command.php:1135-1140), so the rate-limited trac scrape is only reached when the API gives no usable date. An unparseable date falls through instead of becoming today's date, and both strtotime() sites check false !== (:1137, :1167).
Two follow-ups, not blocking:
features/plugin-list-wporg-status.feature:115-178: the new scenarios cover a valid API date and a missing one. Add one for an unparseable API date (must fall back to trac) and one for an unparseable tracpubDate(must stay empty), so the fall-through atsrc/Plugin_Command.php:1135-1141and:1167is pinned.- The PR description says trac is now only used for closed or unlisted plugins. Active plugins also fall back to trac when the API omits the date or it does not parse; your second scenario already tests that. Fix the description.
The codecov/patch failure is the pre-5.3 get_date_from_gmt() branch in format_wporg_last_updated(). The coverage job runs WP latest, which skips @less-than-wp-5.3, so that branch cannot be covered there. Not a blocker.
Milestone 3.0.1 stays. Add the two scenarios and fix the description, then this can go in.
Add two Behat scenarios covering the remaining branches of get_wporg_data() that the earlier scenarios didn't reach: - The plugin-info API returns a last_updated value that strtotime() can't parse. The date must then come from the trac log fallback rather than being rendered as today's date or left empty. - Neither source yields a usable date: the API omits last_updated and the trac log's pubDate can't be parsed. wporg_last_updated must stay empty instead of defaulting to today's date. Co-Authored-By: Pascal Birchler <pascal.birchler@gmail.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EYRUheK7PviogrWAh1bzSb
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Thanks @schlessera. Both follow-ups are addressed:
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Problem
wp plugin list --fields=name,wporg_status,wporg_last_updatedshows a correctwporg_statusbut an always-emptywporg_last_updated, as reported in #546.Root cause
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Plugin_Command::get_wporg_data(), for a plugin that's active on WordPress.org, the code calls theapi.wordpress.orgplugin-info API to determinewporg_status, but discards thelast_updatedfield that response already contains. Instead, wheneverwporg_last_updatedwas requested it always made a second, separate request scraping an RSS feed fromplugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/....That trac endpoint is now aggressively rate-limiting requests — I was able to reproduce
429 Too Many Requestsresponses from it directly. The code only special-cased a404response; on429(or anything else non-200/404) it fell through, found nopubDatein the error body, and silently leftwporg_last_updatedempty. This matches the report exactly: status comes from a different, less-limited endpoint and keeps working, while the date never does.Fix
Reuse the
last_updatedvalue already returned by the primary plugin-info API call for active plugins, avoiding the redundant/rate-limited trac scrape entirely in the common case.The trac scrape remains as the fallback source of the date whenever the plugin-info API doesn't yield a usable one:
last_updatedor contains a value thatstrtotime()can't parse.An unparseable date (from either source) is never rendered as today's date: an unparseable API date falls through to trac, and an unparseable trac
pubDateleaveswporg_last_updatedempty.The date formatting logic (including the pre-WP-5.3
wp_date()fallback) was extracted into a shared private method so both code paths stay in sync.Testing
php -lpasses on the changed file.features/plugin-list-wporg-status.featurecover:429,last_updated(falls back to trac),last_updatedcan't be parsed (falls back to trac),pubDateyields a usable date (wporg_last_updatedstays empty),get_date_from_gmt()fallback rendering in the site timezone.Y-m-ddates are identical whether sourced from the plugin-info API'slast_updatedfield or the trac RSSpubDate— so the existing feature test expectations still hold.Fixes #546
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