From forum at santosohome.com  Fri Sep 12 09:26:44 2008
From: forum at santosohome.com (M.S.)
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:26:44 +0700
Subject: [wp-xmlrpc] XML RPC no response with flash lite?
Message-ID: <B4A70FA2-3700-41CC-9B1B-19A084AF5351@santosohome.com>

hi everyone, this is my first post

i'm trying to develop flash lite client for wordpress blog, i've tried  
using xmlrpcflash by mattism @ sf.net but when put into mobile it  
gives out of memory error.

so i'm trying to re-write at first the metaWeblog.getRecentPosts but  
unsuccessful, hope i can get a solution. i haven't done programming  
for 8 years so i'm in beginner mode.

the xml is created as xml rpc spec but i got no XML response back. any  
idea why?

this is the trace output in flash (username and password replaced):

this is xmlcallstring:  
<methodCall><methodName>metaWeblog.getRecentPosts</ 
methodName><params><param><value><string>1</string></value></ 
param><param><value><string>username</string></value></ 
param><param><value><string>password</string></value></ 
param><param><value><int>20</int></value></param></params></methodCall>
FTPS033: A Call to loadVariables(http://santosohome.com/xmlrpc.php)  
found, limitations might apply.
Connected to http://santosohome.com:80/xmlrpc.php.
Sent data to http://santosohome.com:80/xmlrpc.php.
Loaded data from http://santosohome.com:80/xmlrpc.php.
Finished request for http://santosohome.com:80/xmlrpc.php.
This is onData
loaded: false
status: 0
this is the respond :


this is the code

var SERVICE_URL:String = "http://santosohome.com/xmlrpc.php";

var blog_id:String = "1";
var username:String = ""; //emptied for mail list
var password:String = ""; //emptied for mail list
var totalpost:String = "20";

var METHOD_NEW_POST:String = "metaWeblog.newPost";
var METHOD_EDIT_POST:String = "metaWeblog.editPost";
var METHOD_GET_POST:String = "metaWeblog.getPost";
var METHOD_GET_RECENT_POST:String = "metaWeblog.getRecentPosts";
var METHOD_GET_CATEGORIES:String = "metaWeblog.getCategories";
var METHOD_NEW_MEDIAOBJECT:String = "metaWeblog.newMediaObject";

var userDetail:Array = [
						[blog_id, "string"],
						[username, "string"],
						[password, "string"],
						[totalpost, "int"]
						];

var xmlCall:XML = new XML();
var xmlResponse:XML = new XML();
var ParentNode:XMLNode;
var ChildNode:XMLNode;

function createXML(args:Array) {
	ParentNode = xmlCall.createElement("methodCall");

	xmlCall.appendChild(ParentNode);
	
	ChildNode = xmlCall.createElement("methodName");
	ChildNode.appendChild(xmlCall.createTextNode(METHOD_GET_RECENT_POST));
	ParentNode.appendChild(ChildNode);
	
	ChildNode = xmlCall.createElement("params");
	ParentNode.appendChild(ChildNode);
	ParentNode = ChildNode;
	
	createParams(args);
}

function createParams(args:Array) {
	for (i=0; i < args.length; i++) {
		ChildNode = xmlCall.createElement("param");
		var Node:XMLNode = xmlCall.createElement("value");
		ChildNode.appendChild(Node);
		var NodeType:XMLNode = xmlCall.createElement(args[i][1]);
		Node.appendChild(NodeType);
		NodeType.appendChild(xmlCall.createTextNode(args[i][0]));
		
		ParentNode.appendChild(ChildNode);
	}
	
	var xmlCallString:String = xmlCall.toString();
	
	trace("this is xmlcallstring: " + xmlCallString);
	
	var x:XML = new XML();
	x.ignoreWhite = true;
	x.xmlDecl = '<?xml version="1.0"?>';
	x.contentType = "text/xml";
	x.parseXML( xmlCallString );
	
	x.sendAndLoad(SERVICE_URL, xmlResponse);
	
}

createXML(userDetail);

xmlResponse.onLoad = function () {
	myText.text = xmlResponse.toString();
	trace("this is onLoad");
	trace("loaded: " + xmlResponse.loaded);
	trace("status: " + xmlResponse.status);
	trace("this is the respond : " + xmlResponse);
}

xmlResponse.onData = function () {
	myText.text = xmlResponse.toString();
	trace("This is onData");
	trace("loaded: " + xmlResponse.loaded);
	trace("status: " + xmlResponse.status);
	trace("this is the respond : " + xmlResponse);
}


From luap777 at gmail.com  Mon Sep 22 01:42:58 2008
From: luap777 at gmail.com (Paul S)
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:42:58 -0500
Subject: [wp-xmlrpc] Edit Category?
Message-ID: <98298a100809211842h3e809024mc7ae97d4029fcd97@mail.gmail.com>

Greetings,

I may have overlooked something, but is there anything like wp.editCategory?

Thank you,

Paul
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From tomhoag at gmail.com  Mon Sep 22 15:40:07 2008
From: tomhoag at gmail.com (Tom Hoag)
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:40:07 -0400
Subject: [wp-xmlrpc] Using date_created_gmt in a Java application??
Message-ID: <561806f00809220840h11ba391elb343ab08864a923e@mail.gmail.com>

I'm writing a Java app using the redstone xmlrpc library and having a
problem with both postCreated and date_created_gmt

Whenever I set the postCreated field, WP interprets/modifies the timezone to
GMT. For the time being, I've kludged the date (adding the difference
between the local TZ and GMT) so that WP gets the post date right.  This is
ugly and I'd rather not do this . . .

It's been suggested that I use the date_created_gmt field, but I've had zero
luck getting this to work.  It seems that WP cannot parse the passed in
java.util.Date as a valid date and subsequently defaults to the current
date.

Any thoughts on whats going on here?  Anyone care to share some working
code?

thanks

tom


Here's a snipet of what I'm doing . . .


HashMap<String,Object> content = new HashMap<String,Object>();

java.util.Date postDate;

Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
c.add(Calendar.Days, 7);

postDate = c.getTime();

// snip . . .
// title, keywords, category, description, etc.  are all populated . . .
//

content.put("title",title);
content.put("mt_keywords",keywords);
content.put("categories", new String[]{category});
content.put("post_status", "publish");
content.put("description", articlebody);
 //content.put("date_created_gmt",  postDate);  // date doesn't get
interpretted correctly and defaults to the current date
content.put("dateCreated", postDate); // date is offset by local TZ - GMT

Object[] params = new Object[]{new String("n/a"), user, pass, content, new
Boolean("true")};
 Object token;
try {
  token = client.invoke("metaWeblog.newPost", params);
} catch (XmlRpcException ex) {
  Logger.getLogger(WPDripFeederView.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null,
ex);
} catch (XmlRpcFault ex) {
  Logger.getLogger(WPDripFeederView.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null,
ex);
}
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From joseph at randomnetworks.com  Mon Sep 22 18:24:19 2008
From: joseph at randomnetworks.com (Joseph Scott)
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:24:19 -0600
Subject: [wp-xmlrpc] Edit Category?
In-Reply-To: <98298a100809211842h3e809024mc7ae97d4029fcd97@mail.gmail.com>
References: <98298a100809211842h3e809024mc7ae97d4029fcd97@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <D4A74DC6-327C-455D-B38D-29A1BDDDA2F5@randomnetworks.com>


On Sep 21, 2008, at 7:42 PM, Paul S wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I may have overlooked something, but is there anything like  
> wp.editCategory?
>
Hmmm, seems like we managed to miss that one.

Want to add a ticket for that: trac.wordpress.org

--
Joseph Scott
joseph at randomnetworks.com
http://joseph.randomnetworks.com/






From joseph at randomnetworks.com  Mon Sep 22 18:30:48 2008
From: joseph at randomnetworks.com (Joseph Scott)
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:30:48 -0600
Subject: [wp-xmlrpc] Using date_created_gmt in a Java application??
In-Reply-To: <561806f00809220840h11ba391elb343ab08864a923e@mail.gmail.com>
References: <561806f00809220840h11ba391elb343ab08864a923e@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <B54AE7BC-77FB-4090-A50D-CD0E771242C0@randomnetworks.com>


On Sep 22, 2008, at 9:40 AM, Tom Hoag wrote:

>
> I'm writing a Java app using the redstone xmlrpc library and having  
> a problem with both postCreated and date_created_gmt
>
> Whenever I set the postCreated field, WP interprets/modifies the  
> timezone to GMT. For the time being, I've kludged the date (adding  
> the difference between the local TZ and GMT) so that WP gets the  
> post date right.  This is ugly and I'd rather not do this . . .
>
> It's been suggested that I use the date_created_gmt field, but I've  
> had zero luck getting this to work.  It seems that WP cannot parse  
> the passed in java.util.Date as a valid date and subsequently  
> defaults to the current date.
>
> Any thoughts on whats going on here?  Anyone care to share some  
> working code?



Can you post the raw XML when using date_created_gmt?  I'm afraid my  
Java skills are pretty limited, perhaps someone else will have some  
suggestions on that side of things.

--
Joseph Scott
joseph at randomnetworks.com
http://joseph.randomnetworks.com/






From tomhoag at gmail.com  Tue Sep 23 13:54:32 2008
From: tomhoag at gmail.com (Tom Hoag)
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:54:32 -0400
Subject: [wp-xmlrpc] Using date_created_gmt in a Java application??
In-Reply-To: <561806f00809220840h11ba391elb343ab08864a923e@mail.gmail.com>
References: <561806f00809220840h11ba391elb343ab08864a923e@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <561806f00809230654s1c9e1e83j549e8ee180342481@mail.gmail.com>

Turns out the version of WP that I'm using as a test blog has an older
version of xmlrpc.php
that does not have date_created_gmt (only looks for dateCreated in the
struct).  Hence, using
the date_created_gmt field is yielding exactly the result that I was seeing:
use current date.
(I was referencing a local copy of xmlrpc.php that I must have grabbed from
a more recent
version of WP)

So now I'm back to the dateCreated situation -- dateCreated interprets the
passed in date
as GMT.  Which, as it turns out, is exactly what the spec specifies (
http://www.xmlrpc.com/spec)

<dateTime.iso8601>    date/time    19980717T14:08:55

Note that there is not TZ (or millisecond) component to the dateTime.iso8601
-- So I'm supposing
that my method of offsetting my desired postdate by the diff between the
local TZ and GMT is
the only way to get around this . . .

Also, I started going down the path to dump the XML being sent to the
server, but couldn't find
anything.  Is there a mechanism on WP to log the XML somewhere??  Would be
handy to know
for future debugging.

thanks

tom




> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:30:48 -0600
> From: Joseph Scott <joseph at randomnetworks.com>
> Subject: Re: [wp-xmlrpc] Using date_created_gmt in a Java
>        application??
>
>
>
> On Sep 22, 2008, at 9:40 AM, Tom Hoag wrote:
>
> >
> > I'm writing a Java app using the redstone xmlrpc library and having
> > a problem with both postCreated and date_created_gmt
> >
> > Whenever I set the postCreated field, WP interprets/modifies the
> > timezone to GMT. For the time being, I've kludged the date (adding
> > the difference between the local TZ and GMT) so that WP gets the
> > post date right.  This is ugly and I'd rather not do this . . .
> >
> > It's been suggested that I use the date_created_gmt field, but I've
> > had zero luck getting this to work.  It seems that WP cannot parse
> > the passed in java.util.Date as a valid date and subsequently
> > defaults to the current date.
> >
> > Any thoughts on whats going on here?  Anyone care to share some
> > working code?
>
>
>
> Can you post the raw XML when using date_created_gmt?  I'm afraid my
> Java skills are pretty limited, perhaps someone else will have some
> suggestions on that side of things.
>
> --
> Joseph Scott
> joseph at randomnetworks.com
> http://joseph.randomnetworks.com/
>
>
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From Joe.Cheng at microsoft.com  Tue Sep 23 15:28:41 2008
From: Joe.Cheng at microsoft.com (Joe Cheng)
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:28:41 -0700
Subject: [wp-xmlrpc] Using date_created_gmt in a Java application??
In-Reply-To: <561806f00809230654s1c9e1e83j549e8ee180342481@mail.gmail.com>
References: <561806f00809220840h11ba391elb343ab08864a923e@mail.gmail.com>
	<561806f00809230654s1c9e1e83j549e8ee180342481@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <EF14FE208FC8364F94E8A58EF085979A2B67B81E5A@NA-EXMSG-C109.redmond.corp.microsoft.com>

The spec doesn't actually specify.

What timezone should be assumed for the dateTime.iso8601 type? UTC? localtime?
Don't assume a timezone. It should be specified by the server in its documentation what assumptions it makes about timezones.

I believe appending a "Z" to the end of the date/time string will make WP interpret it as GMT-if your library will let you do that.

From: wp-xmlrpc-bounces at lists.automattic.com [mailto:wp-xmlrpc-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Tom Hoag
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 6:55 AM
To: wp-xmlrpc at lists.automattic.com
Subject: Re: [wp-xmlrpc] Using date_created_gmt in a Java application??


Turns out the version of WP that I'm using as a test blog has an older version of xmlrpc.php
that does not have date_created_gmt (only looks for dateCreated in the struct).  Hence, using
the date_created_gmt field is yielding exactly the result that I was seeing: use current date.
(I was referencing a local copy of xmlrpc.php that I must have grabbed from a more recent
version of WP)

So now I'm back to the dateCreated situation -- dateCreated interprets the passed in date
as GMT.  Which, as it turns out, is exactly what the spec specifies (http://www.xmlrpc.com/spec)

<dateTime.iso8601>    date/time    19980717T14:08:55

Note that there is not TZ (or millisecond) component to the dateTime.iso8601 -- So I'm supposing
that my method of offsetting my desired postdate by the diff between the local TZ and GMT is
the only way to get around this . . .

Also, I started going down the path to dump the XML being sent to the server, but couldn't find
anything.  Is there a mechanism on WP to log the XML somewhere??  Would be handy to know
for future debugging.

thanks

tom



Message: 3
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:30:48 -0600
From: Joseph Scott <joseph at randomnetworks.com<mailto:joseph at randomnetworks.com>>
Subject: Re: [wp-xmlrpc] Using date_created_gmt in a Java
       application??



On Sep 22, 2008, at 9:40 AM, Tom Hoag wrote:

>
> I'm writing a Java app using the redstone xmlrpc library and having
> a problem with both postCreated and date_created_gmt
>
> Whenever I set the postCreated field, WP interprets/modifies the
> timezone to GMT. For the time being, I've kludged the date (adding
> the difference between the local TZ and GMT) so that WP gets the
> post date right.  This is ugly and I'd rather not do this . . .
>
> It's been suggested that I use the date_created_gmt field, but I've
> had zero luck getting this to work.  It seems that WP cannot parse
> the passed in java.util.Date as a valid date and subsequently
> defaults to the current date.
>
> Any thoughts on whats going on here?  Anyone care to share some
> working code?



Can you post the raw XML when using date_created_gmt?  I'm afraid my
Java skills are pretty limited, perhaps someone else will have some
suggestions on that side of things.

--
Joseph Scott
joseph at randomnetworks.com<mailto:joseph at randomnetworks.com>
http://joseph.randomnetworks.com/

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From Joe.Cheng at microsoft.com  Tue Sep 23 15:31:34 2008
From: Joe.Cheng at microsoft.com (Joe Cheng)
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:31:34 -0700
Subject: [wp-xmlrpc] Using date_created_gmt in a Java application??
In-Reply-To: <EF14FE208FC8364F94E8A58EF085979A2B67B81E5A@NA-EXMSG-C109.redmond.corp.microsoft.com>
References: <561806f00809220840h11ba391elb343ab08864a923e@mail.gmail.com>
	<561806f00809230654s1c9e1e83j549e8ee180342481@mail.gmail.com>
	<EF14FE208FC8364F94E8A58EF085979A2B67B81E5A@NA-EXMSG-C109.redmond.corp.microsoft.com>
Message-ID: <EF14FE208FC8364F94E8A58EF085979A2B67B81E61@NA-EXMSG-C109.redmond.corp.microsoft.com>

Sorry, I didn't read closely enough. Yes, seems like you should change your time to GMT.

From: wp-xmlrpc-bounces at lists.automattic.com [mailto:wp-xmlrpc-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Joe Cheng
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 8:29 AM
To: wp-xmlrpc at lists.automattic.com
Subject: RE: [wp-xmlrpc] Using date_created_gmt in a Java application??

The spec doesn't actually specify.

What timezone should be assumed for the dateTime.iso8601 type? UTC? localtime?
Don't assume a timezone. It should be specified by the server in its documentation what assumptions it makes about timezones.

I believe appending a "Z" to the end of the date/time string will make WP interpret it as GMT-if your library will let you do that.

From: wp-xmlrpc-bounces at lists.automattic.com [mailto:wp-xmlrpc-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Tom Hoag
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 6:55 AM
To: wp-xmlrpc at lists.automattic.com
Subject: Re: [wp-xmlrpc] Using date_created_gmt in a Java application??


Turns out the version of WP that I'm using as a test blog has an older version of xmlrpc.php
that does not have date_created_gmt (only looks for dateCreated in the struct).  Hence, using
the date_created_gmt field is yielding exactly the result that I was seeing: use current date.
(I was referencing a local copy of xmlrpc.php that I must have grabbed from a more recent
version of WP)

So now I'm back to the dateCreated situation -- dateCreated interprets the passed in date
as GMT.  Which, as it turns out, is exactly what the spec specifies (http://www.xmlrpc.com/spec)

<dateTime.iso8601>    date/time    19980717T14:08:55

Note that there is not TZ (or millisecond) component to the dateTime.iso8601 -- So I'm supposing
that my method of offsetting my desired postdate by the diff between the local TZ and GMT is
the only way to get around this . . .

Also, I started going down the path to dump the XML being sent to the server, but couldn't find
anything.  Is there a mechanism on WP to log the XML somewhere??  Would be handy to know
for future debugging.

thanks

tom


Message: 3
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:30:48 -0600
From: Joseph Scott <joseph at randomnetworks.com<mailto:joseph at randomnetworks.com>>
Subject: Re: [wp-xmlrpc] Using date_created_gmt in a Java
       application??



On Sep 22, 2008, at 9:40 AM, Tom Hoag wrote:

>
> I'm writing a Java app using the redstone xmlrpc library and having
> a problem with both postCreated and date_created_gmt
>
> Whenever I set the postCreated field, WP interprets/modifies the
> timezone to GMT. For the time being, I've kludged the date (adding
> the difference between the local TZ and GMT) so that WP gets the
> post date right.  This is ugly and I'd rather not do this . . .
>
> It's been suggested that I use the date_created_gmt field, but I've
> had zero luck getting this to work.  It seems that WP cannot parse
> the passed in java.util.Date as a valid date and subsequently
> defaults to the current date.
>
> Any thoughts on whats going on here?  Anyone care to share some
> working code?



Can you post the raw XML when using date_created_gmt?  I'm afraid my
Java skills are pretty limited, perhaps someone else will have some
suggestions on that side of things.

--
Joseph Scott
joseph at randomnetworks.com<mailto:joseph at randomnetworks.com>
http://joseph.randomnetworks.com/

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From joseph at randomnetworks.com  Tue Sep 23 17:12:06 2008
From: joseph at randomnetworks.com (Joseph Scott)
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:12:06 -0600
Subject: [wp-xmlrpc] Using date_created_gmt in a Java application??
In-Reply-To: <561806f00809230654s1c9e1e83j549e8ee180342481@mail.gmail.com>
References: <561806f00809220840h11ba391elb343ab08864a923e@mail.gmail.com>
	<561806f00809230654s1c9e1e83j549e8ee180342481@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <0CE03E24-8EA1-43A1-8425-7D029EC5ADDD@randomnetworks.com>


On Sep 23, 2008, at 7:54 AM, Tom Hoag wrote:

> Turns out the version of WP that I'm using as a test blog has an  
> older version of xmlrpc.php
> that does not have date_created_gmt (only looks for dateCreated in  
> the struct).  Hence, using
> the date_created_gmt field is yielding exactly the result that I was  
> seeing: use current date.
> (I was referencing a local copy of xmlrpc.php that I must have  
> grabbed from a more recent
> version of WP)

Yep, that would explain it :-)


> So now I'm back to the dateCreated situation -- dateCreated  
> interprets the passed in date
> as GMT.  Which, as it turns out, is exactly what the spec specifies (http://www.xmlrpc.com/spec 
> )
>
> <dateTime.iso8601>    date/time    19980717T14:08:55
>
> Note that there is not TZ (or millisecond) component to the  
> dateTime.iso8601 -- So I'm supposing
> that my method of offsetting my desired postdate by the diff between  
> the local TZ and GMT is
> the only way to get around this . . .

Sadly the spec doesn't detail out the TZ issues at all (even worse it  
says each app should figure it out for themselves).  This was why we  
added date_created_gmt to WordPress, to have a field that was always  
(by definition) GMT.


> Also, I started going down the path to dump the XML being sent to  
> the server, but couldn't find
> anything.  Is there a mechanism on WP to log the XML somewhere??   
> Would be handy to know
> for future debugging.


I sniff the traffic in transit, on Windows using Fiddler and on Mac  
using HTTPScoop.

--
Joseph Scott
joseph at randomnetworks.com
http://joseph.randomnetworks.com/