When Piwik DB needs to be upgraded, the API should return a valid response

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/plugins/CoreUpdater/CoreUpdater.php b/plugins/CoreUpdater/CoreUpdater.php
index 584a465130..8fc3f0d92f 100644
--- a/plugins/CoreUpdater/CoreUpdater.php
+++ b/plugins/CoreUpdater/CoreUpdater.php
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ namespace Piwik\Plugins\CoreUpdater;
 
 use Exception;
 use Piwik\Access;
+use Piwik\API\ResponseBuilder;
 use Piwik\Common;
 use Piwik\Filesystem;
 use Piwik\FrontController;
@@ -73,6 +74,15 @@ class CoreUpdater extends \Piwik\Plugin
             if (FrontController::shouldRethrowException()) {
                 throw new Exception("Piwik and/or some plugins have been upgraded to a new version. \n" .
                     "--> Please run the update process first. See documentation: http://piwik.org/docs/update/ \n");
+            } elseif ($module === 'API')  {
+
+                $outputFormat = strtolower(Common::getRequestVar('format', 'xml', 'string', $_GET + $_POST));
+                $response = new ResponseBuilder($outputFormat);
+                $e = new Exception('Database Upgrade Required. Your Piwik database is out-of-date, and must be upgraded before you can continue.');
+                echo $response->getResponseException($e);
+                Common::sendResponseCode(503);
+                exit;
+
             } else {
                 Piwik::redirectToModule('CoreUpdater');
             }