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Testing Weblog APIs

Ok, I'm done testing the Weblog APIs. I've implemented the following methods for my blog:

• Blogger API
  • blogger.getUsersBlogs
  • blogger.newPost
  • blogger.editPost
  • blogger.getPost
  • blogger.deletePost
  • blogger.getRecentPosts

• metaWeblog API
  • metaWeblog.newPost
  • metaWeblog.editPost
  • metaWeblog.getPost
  • metaWeblog.getRecentPosts
  • metaWeblog.getCategories

I really hate how all the stupid methods aren't documented in any one place. I've had to keep a list.

I'm using w.bloggar to post this. It works pretty well, except for two things:

• when doing a metaweblog.getPost, it doesn't recognize the list of categories. I've checked the XML I'm sending over, and from what I can tell it's the same as it's supposed to be but it's not taking it.
• Even though there's an option for multiple categories in the "Account properties", there's only support in the user interface for one category at a time. So that means that I can only post entries from w.bloggar with one category. Not so much of a limitation, but if I try to edit entries with more than one category, I'll lose all but one.

Anyway, one of the side-effects of this process is that now my XML-RPC code is up to date and integrated with my CMS. Now all I have to do is add some features and make sure everything works right and then I can release version 3. I couldn't work on the code before now because I wasn't able to use it for anything since it wasn't up to date with my CMS.

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04:27 (utc-4)
edited: 07:40 (utc-4)