xmlrpc posting with Xpostulate

[tonybaldwin]

Okay...I've started to hack up the xmlrpc functions.
First, I had to replace all "<" and ">" in html tags in a post with"&lt;" and "&gt;",
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 "&lt;" and "&gt;",
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!

Comments

[catness]

A few keywords are wrong:

- it's usejournal, not userjournal (anyway it can be omitted if you post in your own journal)

- the prop names must not have "prop_" prepended to it, i.e. it is: current_location, current_mood, taglist and current_music (see http://www.livejournal.com/doc/server/ljp.csp.proplist.html - it is different from flat interface)

- event: it's either "string" or "base64" but not both - if you do not encode it to base64, remove base64 tag, otherwise remove string tag (I'm not sure about this, but this is what I see in my data stream) - maybe that's the problem, event is a required field


Maybe you have to specify auth_method=clear, even though it's supposed to be default.

[tonybaldwin]

Thanks for pointing those out.
I've correct the props, etc.
At this point, I think I mostly need to get the challenge sorted out.
The data I'm feeding my parser (which should be the server response) when asking for the challenge seems to be incorrect.
This is how I'm trying to get that:
http://pastebin.com/ed4cTjaG
to set the
value for $mychal in
<member><name>challenge</name><value><string>$mychal</string></value></member>

[tonybaldwin]

I don't know/wonder if foreign characters like ç ñ ¿ é require that base64?
They are regular utf8 chars, so, likely not?
base64 should only be required for asian/arabic/cyrillic or such?