Re: metaweblog again.

Separating them is probably the way to go, then we can support blogger 
API clients too.

On Nov 1, 2003, at 8:51 PM, darryl wrote:

> A few issues with the metaweblog API:
>
> a) I implemented metaWeblog.getCategories()
>    * it appears that the metaWeblog API only defines the following 
> elements:
> description, htmlUrl, rssUrl
>
> given the following category (from xmldatabases.org):
>
> <category dbxml:id="259" id="XML">
> <title>XML</title>
> <description>News and ideas about XML</description>
> </category>
>
> i was thinking was to return the 'title' element as the 'description'
> sound ok?
>
> b) It seems like most clients that i've tested are faulty :)
>
> The Blogger API and metaWeblog API are different in subtle ways.
> for example:
>
> metaWeblog.editPost (postid, username, password, struct, publish) 
> returns true
>
> blogger.editPost(appkey,postid,username,password,content,publish) 
> returns true
>
> It appears that even when you set the API to metaWeblog some clients 
> are using
> the blogger method and thus throwing and exception due to the extra 
> parameter.
>
> Option 1) ignore dumb clients
> Option 2) change MetaWeblog.py to use parse the prefix of the method 
> name instead of just stripping it off
> and implement both methods
> Option 3) ?
>
> cheers,
> darryl
>
>
>
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