[wp-xmlrpc] wpmu / adding users/sites/any other admin

[Joseph Scott]

On Apr 11, 2009, at 3:40 AM, Alan Castonguay wrote:

> This came up on wp-hackers but didn't get much response. Any  
> thoughts, or should I just start hacking up an implementation?
>


Sorry I missed that on wp-hackers.

If we're going to add support for adding/managing WP users I think  
we'll end up needed our own namespace to support the more WP specific  
fields (role being the biggie).



>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> From: Alan Castonguay <alan at verselogic.net>
>> Date: April 6, 2009 5:13:44 PM GMT-04:00
>> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
>> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] wpmu / adding users/sites/any other admin
>> Reply-To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
>>
>>> Alan, how about "gaping pits of hell"?
>> heh. =)
>>
>> As noted, there's a lot of configurables in the Wordpress admin  
>> interface that are not exposed by either xmlrpc or atompub. The  
>> xmlrpc function "wp_getAuthors" will provide user_id, user_login,  
>> display_name, but there is no method to Edit existing user/ 
>> usermeta, Register new users, or Delete existing ones.
>>
>> The only fleshed out implementation of user management via atompub  
>> that I'm aware of is Google's GDATA API for Provisioning on Google  
>> Apps (for Premier and Education Edition). This seems well thought  
>> out, and at least some of the decisions can be borrowed.
>>
>> http://code.google.com/apis/apps/gdata_provisioning_api_v2.0_developers_protocol.html#Create_Account_Example
>>
>> Gallery3's API is supposed to provide user registration and  
>> editing: http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery3:API:REST
>> Second Life's API supports user registration: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Registration_API
>>
>> A proper implementation has to start somewhere. So, what thinks  
>> people of creating the following endpoints, and defining an atom  
>> entry for a "user"? I'm not sure if this can borrow from hCard or  
>> the DiSo project.
>>
>> + http://blog.example.com/(wp-)app.php/user/{id} or {username}?
>> + http://blog.example.com/(wp-)app.php/users/{page}?
>>


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Joseph Scott
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http://josephscott.org/




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