Before this fix, trying to authenticate via
xml-rpc call from PHP following the documentation at
odoo.com/documentation/14.0/webservices/odoo.html#logging-in
raised an error:
> $uid = $common->authenticate($db, $username, $password, array());
TypeError: 'list' object is not a mapping
Because PHP doesn't have separate array and mapping types, the
XML-RPC encoder disambiguates based on the existence of
key => value pairs, such disambiguation yields an empty xmlrpc
array for an empty PHP array, which is unexpected on the Python
side.
Relax the check on the Python side:
* fixing this on the client side requires adding arbitrary and
meaningless key => value to the empty array to force the
correct disambiguation which is ugly and weird
* the example code has been there for a long time, so there's
probably lots of such PHP code in the wild
opw-2388141
closesodoo/odoo#62101
X-original-commit: 9f97b7435977c81a079004b7c2186ce75526490c
Signed-off-by: Xavier Morel (xmo) <xmo@odoo.com>
jev-odoo
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