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Glen Mazza closed ROL-1811.
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Resolution: Unresolved
Issue is over 5 years old and according to Dave, Roller is coded properly to
the MetaWeblog API. Unsure if newer versions of Windows Live Writer would
still have this problem (I don't work with it and rarely work on Windows so
wouldn't know.) Closing, with the expectation that if any recent WLW users
have this problem they will enter another JIRA.
> Windows Live Writer fail to do updates - solved
> ------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: ROL-1811
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ROL-1811
> Project: Apache Roller
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Web Services
> Affects Versions: 4.0.1
> Reporter: Steven Board
> Assignee: Roller Unassigned
> Priority: Minor
> Original Estimate: 0.5h
> Remaining Estimate: 0.5h
>
> Hi Guys,
> I know you're aware that Windows Live Writer is unable to perform updates to
> roller blogs using the xml rpc, however I thought I would let you know why
> and how I fixed it locally incase you wanted to apply this fix to the next
> release of roller.
> The reason the update to blogs fails is actually due to the
> org.apache.roller.weblogger.webservices.xmlrpc.MetaWeblogAPIHandler.getCategories
> method actually having two bugs.
> The first is trivial and is the fact that you pass the userId to the
> MetaWeblogAPIHandler.createCategoryStruct(WeblogCategory category, String
> userid) method, rather than the blogId. The createCategoryStruct method then
> incorrectly creates the rssUrl and htmlUrls.
> The second is the fact that the getCategories method does not comply with the
> MetaWeblog API. The method you have created returns a Hashtable with the
> categories as keys with the values being another Hashtable as defined by the
> MetaWeblog API for the getCategories method. The getCategories should just
> return the values from the currently returned Hashtable as a List.
> e.g. The getCategories method should be something like the below.
> public Object getCategories(String blogid, String userid, String
> password)
> throws Exception {
> mLogger
> .debug("STEVEN BAORD custom getCategories()
> Called =====[ SUPPORTED ]=====");
> mLogger.debug((new StringBuilder()).append(" BlogId:
> ").append(
> blogid).toString());
> mLogger.debug((new StringBuilder()).append(" UserId:
> ").append(
> userid).toString());
> Weblog website = validate(blogid, userid, password);
> Weblogger roller = WebloggerFactory.getWeblogger();
> try {
> WeblogManager weblogMgr = roller.getWeblogManager();
> List cats = weblogMgr.getWeblogCategories(website,
> false);
> ArrayList<Hashtable> result = new
> ArrayList<Hashtable>();
> WeblogCategory category;
> Iterator wbcItr = cats.iterator();
> while (wbcItr.hasNext()) {
> category = (WeblogCategory) wbcItr.next();
> result.add(createCategoryStruct(category,
> blogid));
> }
> return result;
> } catch (Exception e) {
> String msg = "ERROR in
> MetaWeblogAPIHandler.getCategories";
> mLogger.error(msg, e);
> throw new XmlRpcException(1000, msg);
> }
> }
> For anyone else wanting to fix this locally you also need to set the
> site.absoluteurl property in the roller_properties tables within the database
> to the url for your roller instance. e.g. http://<your-domain>/roller. This
> is to make sure that the rssUrl and httpUrl for the categories are correctly
> created with their full paths.
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