tonybaldwin: xmlrpc posting with Xpostulate

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tonybaldwin) wrote,
@ 2010-04-06 10:46 am UTC

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xmlrpc posting with Xpostulate

Okay...I've started to hack up the xmlrpc functions.
First, I had to replace all "<" and ">" in html tags in a post with"<" and ">",
and then, I have basically just handwritten out a relevant xml file.
Which looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?><methodCall><methodName>LJ.XMLRPC.postevent</methodName><params><param><value><struct><member><name>username</name><value><string>tonytraductor</string></value></member><member><name>password</name><value><string>XXXXXXXX</string></value></member><member><name>subject</name><value><string>xmlrpc posting</string></value></member><member><name>lineendings</name><value><string>pc</string><value></member><member><name>year</name><value><int>2010</int></value></member><member><name>mon</name><value><int>04</int></value></member><member><name>day</name><value><int>06</int></value></member><member><name>hour</name><value><int>10</int></value></member><member><name>min</name><value><int>46</int></value></member><member><name>prop_current_location</name><value><string>127.0.0.1</string></value></member><member><name>propr_current_mood</name><value><string>focused</string></value></member><member><name>prop_taglist</name><value><string>xmlrpc, xpostulate, wordpress, livejournal, dreamwidth, insanejournal</string></value></member><member><name>prop_currentmusic</name><value><string>none</string></value></member><member><name>userjournal</name><value><string>which journal?</string></value></member><member><name>event</name><value><string>Okay...I've started to hack up the xmlrpc functions.
First, I had to replace all "<" and ">" in html tags in a post with "<" and ">",
and then, I have basically just handwritten out a relevant xml file.

</string></value></member></struct></value></param></params></methodCall>

What I haven't done is tried to send such a file to a server, yet...
I'm not sure if the posting method has to be different from a flat post, in terms of simply sending this file as the post data...
More work...
But, hey, I'm working on it!

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curioser and curioser

tonybaldwin
2010-04-07 03:27 pm UTC (link)

Okay, I'm trying to use tdom (tcl parser) to get the challenge var.
I'm doing:

set getchal "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>
<methodCall>
<methodName>LJ.XMLRPC.getchallenge</methodName>
<params>
<param>
<value><struct>
</struct></value>
</param>
</params>
</methodCall>"

set getchallenge [http::geturl http://www.livejournal.com/interface/xmlrpc -query $getchal -type "text/xml" ]
set mychal [http::status $getchallenge]
set doc [dom parse $mychal]
set root [$mychal documentElement]
set nodeList [$root selectNodes {descendant::a}]
set chalvar {}

foreach node $nodeList {
set attList [$node attributes *]
foreach attribute $attList {
if {[string tolower $attribute] == "c0:"} {
set mychal [$node getAttribute $attribute]
break
}
}
}

But apparently http::meta or http::status is NOT the response from the server that needs to be parsed to grab me the infor (challenge variable c0:blablablab) that I need.
Because tdom keep throwing an error, suggesting that what I'm feeding (which, I thought was the server response) it is not valid xml.

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