[wp-hackers] XML-RPC rewrite

[Jason Trommetter]

Would your demo PHP client give me any clues as to how I might add
something to Gallery (http://gallery.menalto.com) that would allow the
posting of a photo to a WordPress blog. Can you share your code?

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 10:11:56 +0000, m at tidakada.com <m at tidakada.com> wrote:
> Quoting Adam Keys <adam at trmk.org>:
> 
> > Matt mentioned that the XML-RPC code is currently being 'loved'.  I
> > posted a comment inquiring what the nature and status of this is, but
> > there was no discussion.  Pardon me if I missed the discussion here.
> > So, what's the haps?
> >
> > My motivation for asking is that I've got a patch that implements
> > MetaWeblog.newMediaObject.  If you're not familiar with the posting
> > APIs, it allows you to upload files using clients like Ecto.  If you're
> > into that sort of thing.
> 
> 
> hi Adam,
> 
> The XMLRPC rewrite is something I'm responsible of, it's a rewrite to use IXR
> instead of the aging phpxmlrpc code.
> It's not really about the age of the code, it's mostly about cleaner, easier
> code: with IXR, you can have your function return a string, and it'll know to
> serve a string to the client. With phpxmlrpc, you have to declare each and
> every returned value's type as a new xmlrpcval object, which really made the
> code hairy.
> Also, I spotted a dozen or so bugs and inconsistencies with the old xmlrpc code,
> that I'm addressing with this rewrite.
> 
> As for metaWeblog.newMediaObject, the rewrite includes code for it, adapted from
> a patch from mycvs.org that was originally made for the phpxmlrpc version of the
> code.
> Talking about newMediaObject, if anyone knows any other client for Mac that is
> not Ecto and supports newMediaObject, please tell me about it so I can test
> further. At the moment, my demo client in PHP can send pictures to WP, while
> Ecto 1.1.8 cannot: it sends too many bytes...
> 
> Michel
> 
> 
> 
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