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@cmb69 cmb69 commented Oct 13, 2020

If unsupported $search_criteria are passed to imap_sort(), the
function returns an empty array, but there is also an error on the
libc-client error stack ("Unknown search criterion: UNSUPPORTED
(errflg=2)"). If, on the other hand, unsupported $criteria or
unsupported $flags are passed, the function returns false. We
solve this inconsistency by returning false for unsupported
$search_criteria as well.


I'm unsure about the "details" here. Silently failing is unusual, but seems to be pretty common for ext/imap. Also I'm not sure which branch to target. While I consider the behavior a bug, returning an empty array is not terribly wrong, so maybe 8.0/master would be more appropriate.

If unsupported `$search_criteria` are passed to `imap_sort()`, the
function returns an empty array, but there is also an error on the
libc-client error stack ("Unknown search criterion: UNSUPPORTED
(errflg=2)").  If, on the other hand, unsupported `$criteria` or
unsupported `$flags` are passed, the function returns `false`.  We
solve this inconsistency by returning `false` for unsupported
`$search_criteria` as well.
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I'm okay with this as-is, also for 7.3. If imap reports and error, we should treat it as an error...

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cmb69 commented Oct 13, 2020

Makes sense. Thanks!

@php-pulls php-pulls closed this in db8bf0a Oct 13, 2020
@cmb69 cmb69 deleted the cmb/64076 branch October 13, 2020 17:43
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