Windows Live Writer fail to do updates - solved
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Key: ROL-1811
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ROL-1811
Project: Roller
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Web Services
Affects Versions: 4.0.1
Reporter: Steven Board
Assignee: Roller Unassigned
Priority: Minor
Hi Guys,
I know you're aware that Windows Live Writer is unable to perform updates to
roller blogs using the xml rpc, however I thought I would let you know why and
how I fixed it locally incase you wanted to apply this fix to the next release
of roller.
The reason the update to blogs fails is actually due to the
org.apache.roller.weblogger.webservices.xmlrpc.MetaWeblogAPIHandler.getCategories
method actually having two bugs.
The first is trivial and is the fact that you pass the userId to the
MetaWeblogAPIHandler.createCategoryStruct(WeblogCategory category, String
userid) method, rather than the blogId. The createCategoryStruct method then
incorrectly creates the rssUrl and htmlUrls.
The second is the fact that the getCategories method does not comply with the
MetaWeblog API. The method you have created returns a Hashtable with the
categories as keys with the values being another Hashtable as defined by the
MetaWeblog API for the getCategories method. The getCategories should just
return the values from the currently returned Hashtable as a List.
e.g. The getCategories method should be something like the below.
public Object getCategories(String blogid, String userid, String
password)
throws Exception {
mLogger
.debug("STEVEN BAORD custom getCategories()
Called =====[ SUPPORTED ]=====");
mLogger.debug((new StringBuilder()).append(" BlogId:
").append(
blogid).toString());
mLogger.debug((new StringBuilder()).append(" UserId:
").append(
userid).toString());
Weblog website = validate(blogid, userid, password);
Weblogger roller = WebloggerFactory.getWeblogger();
try {
WeblogManager weblogMgr = roller.getWeblogManager();
List cats = weblogMgr.getWeblogCategories(website,
false);
ArrayList<Hashtable> result = new
ArrayList<Hashtable>();
WeblogCategory category;
Iterator wbcItr = cats.iterator();
while (wbcItr.hasNext()) {
category = (WeblogCategory) wbcItr.next();
result.add(createCategoryStruct(category,
blogid));
}
return result;
} catch (Exception e) {
String msg = "ERROR in
MetaWeblogAPIHandler.getCategories";
mLogger.error(msg, e);
throw new XmlRpcException(1000, msg);
}
}
For anyone else wanting to fix this locally you also need to set the
site.absoluteurl property in the roller_properties tables within the database
to the url for your roller instance. e.g. http://<your-domain>/roller. This
is to make sure that the rssUrl and httpUrl for the categories are correctly
created with their full paths.
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