... or clarify. Thanks. Dave, Answer: A question and a comment. Clarification: It seems to me that the existing MW API is focused (whether by design or happy...
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Brent Simmons
brentsimmonsx
May 16, 2003 4:44 pm
My first thought was that it would be more flexible and more consistent with the spec if, instead of just images, it worked with any type of media object. ...
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Dave Winer
dwiner
May 16, 2003 4:46 pm
Thanks for the explanation. In the future it would be good to provide the background with the question. Actually the connection to RSS 2.0 wasn't initially...
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Lavandowska
flanandowska
May 16, 2003 6:08 pm
... I knew what he was getting at right off. ... Goodie, than we can have the User Management calls that Rogers Cadenhead proposed? ;-) Lance ...
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steve zellers
SteveZellers
May 16, 2003 7:00 pm
<delurk> ... I realize that this was a pre-RFC, but I think Roger brings up a good point. It sounds to me like as a matter of policy, new methods should ...
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Dave Winer
dwiner
May 16, 2003 8:32 pm
Good point. I did it that way because I make lots of GIFs and JPEGs myself and I have code that can determine the height and width of those. But no reason to...
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Dave Winer
dwiner
May 17, 2003 10:36 pm
Subject: New Message: Re: A new API for sequences of photos? ... http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/mtpsoft/limon/ [1] ... simplicity. That simplicity was part of...
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Dave Winer
dwiner
May 18, 2003 3:59 am
Subject: New Message: metaWeblog.newImageSequence, OPML, etc. ... performing basic posts to a weblog. After a set of photos is uploaded, a "Post to blog"...
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hossennet
Jul 31, 2003 7:49 pm
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Dave Winer
dwiner
Aug 1, 2003 12:49 pm
Greetings! I've been working on the long-delayed unified spec for the MetaWeblog API. It's been documented in layers across several pages on the XML- RPC site....
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Andrew Grumet
aegrumet
Aug 1, 2003 2:35 pm
One thing I didn't pick up from reading the spec is, is there a standard practice for selecting a postid to put in the getPost() call? In other words, how...
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diegod2r
Aug 1, 2003 5:19 pm
... standard practice for selecting a postid to put in the getPost() call? In other words, how would I tell my desktop authoring tool that I want to edit "this...
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Diego Doval
diegod2r
Aug 1, 2003 5:31 pm
Dave, I thought that it would be useful to add the following methods to round out MW: metaWeblog.getUsersBlogs metaWeblog.getUserInfo Mirroring the...
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Brent Simmons
brentsimmonsx
Aug 1, 2003 5:41 pm
There is a metaWeblog.getCategories method: http://www.xmlrpc.com/ metaWeblogApi#update31602AddedMetawebloggetcategories -Brent...
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Dave Winer
dwiner
Aug 1, 2003 5:49 pm
Brent, it was an oversight that I didn't include that in the new draft. I just corrected that oversight (and a couple of others). ...
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Diego Doval
diegod2r
Aug 1, 2003 5:56 pm
Thanks for the reminder Brent (I forgot to check on the previous spec), I just saw that Dave updated the current spec with it as well. Since we're on the...
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Brent Simmons
brentsimmonsx
Aug 1, 2003 5:58 pm
metaWeblog.getRecentPosts is another method. -Brent...
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Dave Winer
dwiner
Aug 1, 2003 6:05 pm
Actually this one is not in the metaWeblog spec, it is in an RFC that you posted in December last year. http://www.xmlrpc.com/discuss/msgReader$2366 I'm going...
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Dave Winer
dwiner
Aug 1, 2003 6:17 pm
Description is just the description, nothing more. The name of the category is the name of the sub-struct for the category (recall that XML-RPC structs have...
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Dougal Campbell
emcampbell3
Aug 1, 2003 6:25 pm
... +1, though I'd make catId mandatory (and suggest duplicating description, if the blog system in question doesn't have ids separate from names). OTOH, since...
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Diego Doval
diegod2r
Aug 1, 2003 7:51 pm
... category is the name of the sub-struct for the category (recall that XML-RPC structs have names). The name of the struct must be unique, making it a...
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Brent Simmons
brentsimmonsx
Aug 1, 2003 7:52 pm
I would argue that getRecentPosts actually is a standard part of the metaWeblog API. It's supported by Manila, Radio, Movable Type, and probably others. (In...
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Dougal Campbell
emcampbell3
Aug 1, 2003 7:52 pm
... FWIW, metaWeblog.getRecentPosts is already in use out in the wild (and not just as part of the MovableType API), and has pretty much become a de facto part...
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Diego Doval
diegod2r
Aug 1, 2003 7:52 pm
When adding this to the new spec I would definitely specify really well what "recent" meant--adding a parameter for the cut-off date (optionally empty for all...
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Dave Winer
dwiner
Aug 1, 2003 8:46 pm
I just added docs for metaWeblog.getRecentPosts. http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/crimson1/stories/storyReader$371#metawebl oggetrecentposts Dave...
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Dave Winer
dwiner
Aug 3, 2003 3:53 pm
I added a new note [1] in the comments section of the MetaWeblog API spec explaining that errors are handled through the fault-reporting procedure described...
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Dave Winer
dwiner
Aug 4, 2003 1:24 am
... From: <dwiner@...> To: <dwiner@...> Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2003 8:55 PM Subject: New Message: Re: The MetaWeblog API...
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Dave Winer
dwiner
Aug 26, 2003 12:31 pm
The revisted MetaWeblog API spec is available, with caveats removed, here: http://www.xmlrpc.com/metaWeblogApi It's now safe to develop applications based on...
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jeffreyalanhenning
jeffreyalanh...
Jan 11, 2004 1:34 pm
... Thanks! This is an important entry point, since it provides a client app a way to get the post ids, which are essential for the basic entry points. The...
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Randy Morin
randymorin
May 18, 2004 11:28 pm
Noticed that the current MetaWeblogAPI spec is missing a deletePost. I thought this was added about a year ago. Seems to be gone now. Just wondering. Randy...
