Extending the XML_RPC Plugin

[blog.brockha.us]

Hello.

The XML_RPC plugin implements interfaces defined by other blog tools.
At the moment I need some new calls, that are not defined in other interfaces AFAIK. In example: I need to get all articles for a given category.

So I' thinking about implementing some unique s9y_* XML_RPC calls.

What do you think: Should I implement these new XML_RPC calls in the XML_RPC plugin in order to make them available to the community, or should I implement a new private plugin only available to myself?

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Well, the full and cool way of course would be to enhance the plugin in some kind of RFC-like way, by also asking other blog developers how their systems can support special calls.

I believe WordPress has added some custom options, so maybe there's some common ground to use for new functions?

REgards,
Garvin

[blog.brockha.us]

Do you have a link describing the new WP XML_RPC features you mean?

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Sadly not. A year or two ago, I was contacted by them and Yahoo telling me about a taskforce/workgroup that was to be created.I offered to assist in it and implement the features for s9y.

Half a year later I never heard from them again, but read a WP announcement that they enhanced the XML-RPC on their own with proprietary functions. I wasn't happy about this, and never dug really into it since.

Regards,
Garvin

[Don Chambers]

Grischa - if you do work on the plugin, can you fix this output, which always fails validation:

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<link rel="EditURI" type="application/rsd+xml" title="RSD" url="http://www.example.com/serendipity_xmlrpc.php?xsd=true" />

I think it is just the "url=" bit.... can that be href?

[blog.brockha.us]

@Garvin: Hmm.. I only find the typical calls for WP at http://codex.wordpress.org/XML-RPC_wp . I am wondering, why every blog has to redefine them again and again? There are all the same, I saw at other XMLRPC definitions.. :-/

@Don: Well, if I work on it, I will fix this. Are your sure, it has to be called href? I'm not very firm in this..

[Don Chambers]

@Don: Well, if I work on it, I will fix this. Are your sure, it has to be called href? I'm not very firm in this..

No, I am not sure it has to be an href... but it does fail validation using url, or at least, I think that is the reason. I do not use this plugin myself, so I cannot be sure. I AM, however, sure that it does not validate.

[blog.brockha.us]

Okay, "url" seems to be realy wrong. I fixed this to "href" and commited it into the cvs. Sadly Widows Life Writer still is unable to detect the blog automatically. I had hope about this..

[blog.brockha.us]

Okay.. Now I need a new function call: Get all entries for a given category (list).

Should I implement my own plugin or should I implement them into the S9Y Plugin?

[judebert]

ALL entries?

Well, serendipity_fetchEntries() can do it, according to its inline documentation.

Just set $serendipity['GET']['category'] to the list of category IDs, separated by semicolons: "1;3;29;17". Then call serendipity_fetchEntries().

[blog.brockha.us]

Yes all or using a "maxentries" parameter, like the other xml_rpc calls do it.

Your hint about setting post parameters doesn't help when using xmlrpc, AFAIK. I have to implement a new xmlrpc call to offer the possibility to get all entries of a category. Or do I misunderstand you, judebert?

[judebert]

Ah.

Sorry; I thought you wanted a serendipity function that could get all entries, so you could implement an XML-RPC method. I didn't realize you were trying to determine the correct place to put an XML-RPC method that returns all entries in a category.

You probably knew about fetchEntries anyway.

I don't know enough about XML-RPC to answer that question.

[blog.brockha.us]

Okay. I think, I will do my own plugin then but keep an eye on it making it easy to merge it with the normal xmlrpc plugin, if desired later..

[ormus7577]

Sorry for digging up this old thread...

Grischa, didn't you fix the encoding of html entities for the title of entries published via Live Writer? Somehow it doesn't work for me, the entities are converted, but not the way I would expect them to... Very strange. Example: http://www.ormus.info/archives/19-Umlau ... riter.html

[blog.brockha.us]

Yes, this is right, I fixed the plugin to get it working with the WLW. But sorry, I have no idea, why it doesn't work for you. It looks as if it is some kind of encoding problem.

I'm on Linux now (since a year or so), so I can't test WLW at the moment..