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Dave Johnson commented on ROL-1811:
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Which MetaWeblog API spec are you refering to?
Roller follows what believe to be the one and only MetaWeblog API spec which
says:
(from http://www.xmlrpc.com/metaWeblogApi#metawebloggetrecentposts)
"metaWeblog.getCategories (blogid, username, password) returns struct. The
struct returned contains one struct for each category, containing the following
elements: description, htmlUrl and rssUrl."
That's exactly what Roller does, it returns a struct of structs, which in Java
is a hashtable of hashtables and not a list of hashtables as you suggest. If we
change this to satisfy Windows Live Writer, we'll likely be breaking other
clients.
> Windows Live Writer fail to do updates - solved
> ------------------------------------------------
>
> 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
> Original Estimate: 0.5h
> Remaining Estimate: 0.5h
>
> 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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