[wp-xmlrpc] Possible to filter posts users see in their mobile app?

[Eric Mann]

I don't see anything wrong with that in your case.  The xmlrpc_call action
is fired after logging in the requesting user ... so as long as you don't
need to do anything *before* login, you should be just fine.

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Muro, Matthew <mmuro at advance.ua.edu> wrote:

> See source here:
> http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/restrict-categories/trunk/restrict-categories.php
>
> I'm adding it to line 50 in my __construct().
>
> For a regular browser, it's added through the admin_init action.  For
> mobile app users, I'm using the xmlrpc_call action unless you think I need
> to use a different hook.
>
> Matthew Muro
>
>
> On Mar 21, 2011, at 3:40 PM, Eric Mann wrote:
>
> Nothing sticks out.  Give it a try from a couple of different systems (iOS
> app, Android app if you have it, another XML-RPC interface).  But if it
> works with one, it should work with all of them.  Where are you doing the
> check for the XMLRPC_REQUEST constant?  My only concern would be that the
> check itself might be missed somehow if it lives in the wrong part of the
> code or is used on the wrong hook.
>
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Muro, Matthew <mmuro at advance.ua.edu
> <mailto:mmuro at advance.ua.edu>> wrote:
> Currently, I'm only running through the filters if is_admin() which might
> be why the filter isn't being applied.
>
> I just added a check for the XMLRPC_REQUEST constant, manually filtered
> pre_get_posts and list_terms_exclusions and the posts/categories were
> properly restricted.
>
> This is what I'm doing to handle xml-rpc:
> if ( defined ( 'XMLRPC_REQUEST' ) && XMLRPC_REQUEST ) {
> add_action( 'xmlrpc_call', array( &$this, 'posts' ) );
> }
>
> In my posts function is where I'm setting the categories and hooking into
> the filters I mentioned above.
>
> Is there anything else I need to be checking for or will this cover it?
>
> Matthew
>
> Matthew,
>
> This really depends on which XML-RPC calls the mobile application is
> making.
>  Off the top of my head, I'd think they were using `blogger.getRecentPosts`
> to get the blog's most recent posts.  This method internally calls
> wp_get_recent_posts() which uses the get_posts() function to pull things
> from the database.
>
> This *should* be firing the pre_get_posts automatically.  Is it not?  Have
> you tried to trace the route of a request?  What have you done so far to
> extend this functionality to users of the WordPress iOS app and what have
> been the results?
>
> Matthew Muro
>
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