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Bug 62946 - Boolean preferences with default value of true cannot be changed if they do not have a key in $wgDefaultUserOptions
Boolean preferences with default value of true cannot be changed if they do n...
Status: NEW
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
User preferences (Other open bugs)
1.23.0
All All
: Normal normal (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Blocks: documentation
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Reported: 2014-03-22 01:18 UTC by Tisza Gergő
Modified: 2014-03-24 13:46 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Tisza Gergő 2014-03-22 01:18:58 UTC
Steps to reproduce: 
1. in the GetPreferences hook, add a preference with type=toggle and default=true
2. go to Special:Preferences, unset that preference, save.
The preference will not be saved (unless $wgDefaultUserOptions[$preferenceName] is set).

This is caused by the check in User::saveOptions() to only save preferences with non-default values:

	$defaultOption = self::getDefaultOption( $key );
	if ( ( is_null( $defaultOption ) &&
		!( $value === false || is_null( $value ) ) ) ||
		$value != $defaultOption
	) {
		// save
	}

User::getDefaultOptions() returns null if it does not find the key in $wgDefaultUserOptions, and $value will be false, so both parts of the condition fail.

If setting $wgDefaultUserOptions is required when adding a new preference, that should be clearly documented (neither [[mw:Manual:$wgDefaultUserOptions]] nor [[mw:Manual:Hooks/GetPreferences]] gives that impression). Otherwise, the correct logic is IMO something like this:

	$siteDefaultOption = self::getDefaultOption( $key );
	$defaultOption = Preferences::getPreferences( $user, $context)[$key];
	if ( is_null( $siteDefaultOption ) ) {
		$changed = ( $value != $defaultOption );
	} else {
		$changed = ( $value != $siteDefaultOption );
	}
	if ( $changed ) {
		// save
	}

(Except that getPreferences depends on the context which is not available here. Ugh...)

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