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Introduce a dedicated `search-replace url` command

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  • #209 by @MarkBerube — closed without merging

Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
json
Domain
cli, database

Research direction

Start by reading the existing wp search-replace behavior and document the URL storage permutations mentioned, including serialized values and http versus https. Define the proposed search-replace url command around those cases, then develop it test-first with coverage showing that each documented URL form is handled.

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Description

command:search-replace contributor-day

The primary usage of wp search-replace is to update URLs in the database. However, URLs can be stored in various forms in the database (e.g. serialized into JSON), which means they're missed by wp search-replace.

We don't really want to change the behavior of wp search-replace, lest the sky fall down on our head. However, we could introduce a wp search-replace url command that handled the edge cases of URL formatting (serialized, http vs. https, etc.).

If we want to introduce this command, we'd first want to document these permutations of how URLs are stored. Afterwards, we could develop the command in a test-driven manner.

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