This method provides generalized, consistent type casting more versatile than PHP's basic type juggling while hiding the significant complexity in achieving this.
While this commit does not change any existing code to use the new method, the intent is for both API handlers and database drivers to use the same basic rules for type conversion while still allowing for differing failure modes.
- Specifying a non-integer parent no longer silently casts to 0 or 1
- Specifying a folder ID of 0 now always converts to null automatically
- Performing both a rename and move to root in the same operation no longer results in potential duplicates
- Calling folderSetProperties with an empty data array no peforms an update; it now returns false before the update call
- Modification timestamps are now actually updated when a folder is modified
- Constraint violation exceptions triggered by code (rather than the database) now print a message
- Renaming a folder or subscription to a non-string value (e.g. an array) throws an exception rather than silently casting
- Added tests to better cover all the above
- Centralized the normalization of integers and title strings into a new ValueInfo static class
- Basic update service handles only one feed at a time and possibly leaks memory
- Output for REST requests is still very basic
- No avatar support
- No reporting of whether cron works
- No cleanup before or after feed updates
- Fixes #8
- Fixes #9
- Fixes #10
- Fixes #11
- Fixes #12
- Differentiated between a missing ID which is the subject of an action (e.g. the subscription when moving a subscription) and other missing IDs (e.g. the folder when moving a subscription)
- Enforced same rules for subscription titles as for folder names, save that null is valid for subscriptions
- Implemented all but one feed-related function (it's more ofan item function)
- Fixed time conversion for input into SQL; dates in PM were previously wrong
- Added miscellaneous tentative functions to Database to help with peculiarities of NCNv1; these may change
- Tests to come soon
- Simplified folder removal; now properly relies on foreign keys for dependency resolution
- simplified *propertiesSet() methods by offloading input validation and query building to a generic function
- Implemented function to get the properties of a single folder (useful for internal use)
- Implemented a function to set the properties of a folder
• Added category updating in Database->updateFeeds()
• Made Database->updateFeeds() fail quietly when exceptions are
occurred, logging them in the database instead of failing.
• Changed the categories table name from arsse_tags to arsse_categories.
