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ctarda

Apr 11 2004, 12:48 AM

Hi!

I'm developing a little application to post to my movable type blogs, using the XMLRPC API.

Now, I'm able to create and publish posts, edit posts, set categories, .... but I'm not able to set the "Convert line breaks" property of a given post.

From the docs:

QUOTE

String mt_convert_breaks, the value for the convert_breaks field

That's my problem. I'm not able to set that value correctly. I don't know which values are possible.

I've tried [0,1] and [0, __default__], but without luck.

I'd appreciate any help or hint. Thanks!

shelley

Apr 11 2004, 10:11 AM

I see either 0, 1, or __default__ in that field in my database table.

ctarda

Apr 11 2004, 11:04 AM

Hi, Shelley, and thanks for your answer.

I've tried again to set that value as __default__ but without result.

I also saw the database values, so I was aware of it, but the problem seems to happen when posting through the XMLRPC api.

Here´s the XML I send when creating a new post:

CODE

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<methodCall>
    <methodName>metaWeblog.newPost</methodName>
    <params>
<param>
     <value><string>my_blog_id</string></value>
</param>
<param>
     <value><string>username</string></value>
</param>
<param>
     <value><string>password</string></value>
</param>
<param>
     <value>
<struct>
     <member>
<name>mt_convert_breaks</name>
<value><string>__default__</string></value>
     </member>
     <member>
<name>mt_allow_comments</name>
<value><int>1</int></value>
     </member>
     <member>
<name>mt_excerpt</name>
<value><string></string></value>
     </member>
     <member>
<name>mt_text_more</name>
<value><string></string></value>
     </member>
     <member>
<name>description</name>
<value><string>First line
Second line
Third line</string></value>
     </member>
     <member>
<name>title</name>
<value><string>Post title</string></value>
     </member>
     <member>
<name>selectedCat</name>
<value><string>19</string></value>
     </member>
</struct>
     </value>
</param>
<param>
     <value>
<boolean>true</boolean>
     </value>
</param>
    </params>
</methodCall>

I've included the complete xml just to see that it's wellformed, and so you could see its format.

The post is created, and I get as a return value de new postId. Other properties, like "allow_comments" are properly setted. But, I can't set "convert_breaks"

Thanks again,

shelley

Apr 11 2004, 11:18 AM

Unfortunately, my technical skills don't currently extend to this area. So we'll need to wait until someone who's more familiar with doing this comes along to help out.

ctarda

Apr 12 2004, 02:05 AM

Well, maybe the problem is not the mt_convert_breaks value, but the characters that are converted to
. Probably, the end of line characters I'm sending are not appropiate.

I've checked Entry.pm, to see which character is converted, but my knowledge of perl is very basic.

I think that the regular expresion searched is /\s*,\s*/, but I don't understand it.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks

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