categoryId in WordPress 2.1 Breaks Ecto
Posted January 23rd, 2007 @ 07:32pm by Erik J. Barzeski
As I said in an earlier post, WordPress 2.1 breaks ecto, a blog publishing app I and thousands of others use. I wrote to the developer Adriaan, and he's informed me that the fault lies with WordPress 2.1. Here's how.
When requesting new information in ecto (via "Refresh"), ecto attempts to retrieve the last 15-20 or so entries, their categories, their dates, etc. WordPress 2.1 sends this:
<member><name>categoryId</name><value><int>7</int></value></member>
It should send this:
<member><name>categoryId</name><value><string>7</string></value></member>
This was correct in previous versions, and according to Adriaan, the specs clearly indicate that categoryId is a string, not an int. A quick Google search quickly returns this page, which is over one month old.
I'll mention this on the IRC channel.
14 Responses to "categoryId in WordPress 2.1 Breaks Ecto"
Posted 23 Jan 2007 at 7:48pm #
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Posted 24 Jan 2007 at 1:38am #
Specs can be found mirrored here: http://blog.kung-foo.tv/archives/001594.html
Posted 24 Jan 2007 at 1:20pm #
Thanks for finding this and teasing it out...
- geoff
Posted 24 Jan 2007 at 2:16pm #
A patch to fix this is available at http://trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/3662/3662-xmlrpc-categoryId.diff . Even though I am confident this will fix it, still would love to hear that the patch works for you 😉
Posted 24 Jan 2007 at 2:19pm #
Oh, I almost forget... thank you Erik for presenting this so concisely! And sorry for us not catching this.
Posted 24 Jan 2007 at 2:35pm #
[quote comment="39250"]A patch to fix this is available at http://trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/3662/3662-xmlrpc-categoryId.diff . Even though I am confident this will fix it, still would love to hear that the patch works for you ;-)[/quote]
It appears to work.
Posted 25 Jan 2007 at 4:33am #
Works like a charm. Thanks Lloyd.
Posted 25 Jan 2007 at 1:00pm #
super. works fine
Thanks in advance.
Posted 25 Jan 2007 at 5:12pm #
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Posted 29 Jan 2007 at 2:26pm #
Sparkzy, you are welcome for the solution that "Erik posted" 😉 Which I actually got from Andy Skelton.
Posted 30 Jan 2007 at 11:08am #
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Posted 02 Feb 2007 at 8:21pm #
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Posted 02 Feb 2007 at 8:30pm #
Nice!
Ecto has been downloading my blog entries again.
Thank you, Erik and Llyod!
Posted 19 Feb 2007 at 2:23pm #
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