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Wictor Wilén

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Windows Live Writer 1.0 beta and Metaweblog API

Posted at 2006-09-29 03:11 by Wictor Wilén in Windows Live Writer with 5 comments.

Windows Live Writer has been upgraded and I wrote a post on the Metaweblog standard conformance of WLW in a previously.

The metaWeblog.getCategories I suggested to use to get it to work with Windows Live Writer will now fail since Writer expects that a description is passed in the response.

That is your response has to look like this, watch the lines 18-21 and 32-35.

 1 <?xml version="1.0"?>
 2 <methodResponse>
 3   <params>
 4     <param>
 5       <value>
 6         <array>
 7           <data>
 8             <value>
 9               <struct>
10                 <member>
11                   <name>categoryid<name>
12                   <value>1</value>
13                 <member>
14                 <member>
15                   <name>titlename>
16                   <value>Category 1value>
17                 <member>
18                 <member>
19                   <name>descriptionname>
20                   <value>Description 1value>
21                 <member>
22               </struct>
23               <struct>
24                 <member>
25                   <name>categoryidname>
26                   <value>2</value>
27                 <member>
28                 <member>
29                   <name>titlename>
30                   <value>Category 2value>
31                 <member>
32                 <member>
33                   <name>descriptionname>
34                   <value>Description 2</value>
35                 </member>
36               </struct>
37             </value>
38           </data>
39         </array>
40       </value>
41     </param>
42   </params>
43 </methodResponse>

Comments and trackbacks

#  Annoy by Hans Nordhaug
Screenshot from websnpr Thx for keeping us up to date. Annoyingly it still doesn't work if you don't send the category id. I can't see that this is part of the API... PS! You have some missing less-than tags for you end-tags above.
#  Re: Annoy by Wictor Wilén
Screenshot from websnpr Hello, WLW does not conform to the standard, as I wrote earlier. This is from the MetaWeblog API RFC: "The struct returned contains one struct for each category, containing the following elements: description, htmlUrl and rssUrl." The missing end-tags is due to some bug in a WLW plugin :-)
#  Happy one year anniversary! by Trackback
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#  Using MetaWebLog API with C# by Trackback
Screenshot from websnpr Using MetaWebLog API with C#
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Screenshot from websnpr Using MetaWebLog API with C#
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