Fixes #4393 working around the overloaded 'count' parameter

3 files changed, 24 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/engine/lib/annotations.php b/engine/lib/annotations.php
index f40a2cc6f..bd5ea1a1f 100644
--- a/engine/lib/annotations.php
+++ b/engine/lib/annotations.php
@@ -200,6 +200,18 @@ function update_annotation($annotation_id, $name, $value, $value_type, $owner_gu
  * @since 1.8.0
  */
 function elgg_get_annotations(array $options = array()) {
+
+	// @todo remove support for count shortcut - see #4393
+	if (isset($options['__egefac']) && $options['__egefac']) {
+		unset($options['__egefac']);
+	} else {
+		// support shortcut of 'count' => true for 'annotation_calculation' => 'count'
+		if (isset($options['count']) && $options['count']) {
+			$options['annotation_calculation'] = 'count';
+			unset($options['count']);
+		}		
+	}
+	
 	$options['metastring_type'] = 'annotations';
 	return elgg_get_metastring_based_objects($options);
 }
@@ -425,6 +437,10 @@ function elgg_get_entities_from_annotation_calculation($options) {
 
 	$options['callback'] = 'entity_row_to_elggstar';
 
+	// see #4393
+	// @todo remove after the 'count' shortcut is removed from elgg_get_annotations()
+	$options['__egefac'] = true;
+
 	return elgg_get_annotations($options);
 }
 
diff --git a/engine/lib/metadata.php b/engine/lib/metadata.php
index 35b7b4dfb..96d446060 100644
--- a/engine/lib/metadata.php
+++ b/engine/lib/metadata.php
@@ -281,6 +281,14 @@ $access_id = ACCESS_PRIVATE, $allow_multiple = false) {
  * @since 1.8.0
  */
 function elgg_get_metadata(array $options = array()) {
+
+	// @todo remove support for count shortcut - see #4393
+	// support shortcut of 'count' => true for 'metadata_calculation' => 'count'
+	if (isset($options['count']) && $options['count']) {
+		$options['metadata_calculation'] = 'count';
+		unset($options['count']);
+	}
+
 	$options['metastring_type'] = 'metadata';
 	return elgg_get_metastring_based_objects($options);
 }
diff --git a/engine/lib/metastrings.php b/engine/lib/metastrings.php
index 76c4bd8c4..f49b4a163 100644
--- a/engine/lib/metastrings.php
+++ b/engine/lib/metastrings.php
@@ -389,11 +389,6 @@ function elgg_get_metastring_based_objects($options) {
 
 	$selects = $options['selects'];
 
-	// allow count shortcut
-	if ($options['count']) {
-		$options['metastring_calculation'] = 'count';
-	}
-
 	// For performance reasons we don't want the joins required for metadata / annotations
 	// unless we're going through one of their callbacks.
 	// this means we expect the functions passing different callbacks to pass their required joins.