[wp-hackers] Re: Setting post enclosures via XML-RPC

[Steve Winton]

On 11/28/06, Steve Winton <stevewinton at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/28/06, Steve Winton <stevewinton at gmail.com> wrote:
> > WP Gurus...
> >
> > Further to my previous post on metaWeblog.newMediaObject...
> >
> > I am trying to publish a podcast remotely via XML-RPC. It's all going
> > well up to a point - I can upload the MP3 remotely, and publish a post
> > containing a link to this MP3 in the 'Podcast' category. However, I've
> > come across 1 issue. When the post is published via
> > metaWeblog.newPost, the enclosures are not set, which is pretty
> > crucial for a podcast.
> >
> > I'm happy to create my own XML-RPC function on the server to create
> > the enclosures for a post (as far as I can see this is just a case of
> > adding an 'enclosure' meta field to the post), but can anyone here
> > give me some pointers of which WP functions I should hook in to, to
> > achieve this? Or, has anyone got some other workaround for this?
> >
> > Many thanks,
> > Steve
> >
>
> OK, add_post_meta is the answer, and I've hacked the following
> together in xmlrpc.php, in mw_newPost()...
>
>     $meta = $content_struct['meta'];
>     if (is_array($meta)) {
>       foreach($meta as $key=>$val){
>         add_post_meta($post_ID, $key, $val, false);
>       }
>     }
>
> This is doing the trick for me. I suppose the mw_editPost function
> should be edited also for completeness, to allow the post meta to be
> updated.
>
> This approach also seems to be acceptable, according to the metaWeblog
> API (http://www.xmlrpc.com/metaWeblogApi), i.e.
>
> Where an element has attributes, for example, enclosure, pass a struct
> with sub-elements whose names match the names of the attributes
> according to the RSS 2.0 spec, url, length and type.
>
> Any chances of getting this change into trunk?
>
> Many thanks,
> Steve
>

I've raised an enhancement in Trac for this (after revising my
original approach). I've also uploaded a patchfile for xmlrpc.php.

Please see http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3405.

Many thanks,
Steve