[wp-hackers] XMLRPC Patches

[Emmanuel Frécon]

Hello All,

I am new to WP and to this list, so please excuse me if this is the 
wrong way of contacting all of you.

I am in the process of moving a number of blogs from MT to WP and have 
stumbled on a number of bugs/missing features in the process. I have 
focused on the XMLRPC API since I am posting to these blogs using a home 
brew client.

I have made available a number of my patches on my blog (this one is 
still MT-driven :-( ). The entry below summarises more or less all of 
the modifications that I have done and points to a patch file to apply 
to the official 1.2 release. http://doping.sics.se/prof/archives/002365.html

Michel left a comment in another of my entries where he was considering 
the inclusion of these combined patches into CVS. It is not yet there, 
but that is probably a matter of time.
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/cafelog/wordpress/xmlrpc.php?rev=1.73&view=auto

I am writing here to:

1. Make you aware of these patches so that you can use them if necessary.
2. Start some additional discussion on some other parts of the XMLRPC API.

I have noticed that the mt_keyword part of the MT extension to 
metaWeblog is not supported. I quickly understood that this was because 
WP was in theory more flexible through letting you associate any key/val 
to any entries. There has been a number of posts floating around on this 
list regarding the issue and I have seen a plugin that adds a better 
(web) interface to these keywords. The problem is that the plugin does 
not extends to the XMLRPC API, which would probably be a good idea (?). 
Any takers, comments and ideas?

Another side of things that you will notice in my patches is that I have 
started a new "standard" API where all calls start by wp. I needed badly 
the function, which is why I added it that way. But perhaps is the 
general idea a good thing, i.e. adding a bunch of WP specific XMLRPC 
entries to access what makes WP different from the other blog systems. 
The key/value interface that I was talking about in the previous 
paragraph is an example of what could be defined there. Any thoughts?


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