[drupal-devel] [bug] Category selection does not work with Movable Type blogapi

[Earl Dunovant]

mt.publishPost isn't supposed to set categories at all, assuming you
match Movable Type's spec precisely. It should set an existing post's
status to Published...nothing else, not even pings to the various web
services.

mt.setPostCategories has to be called.


On 6/23/05, walkah <drupal-devel at drupal.org> wrote:
> Issue status update for http://drupal.org/node/24030
> 
>  Project:      Drupal
>  Version:      4.6.1
>  Component:    blogapi.module
>  Category:     bug reports
>  Priority:     normal
>  Assigned to:  walkah
>  Reported by:  mrmachine
>  Updated by:   walkah
>  Status:       patch
> 
> i'm not sure that'd make a difference, would it? isn't the issue that
> $node->taxonomy is unset?
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> walkah
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> Previous comments:
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> May 31, 2005 - 17:38 : mrmachine
> 
> Using a blog client (linux - either Drivel or BlogTK) and the Moveable
> Type api, you can retrieve categories and select one for your post, but
> once the post is submitted, it fails to allocate the category - making
> the use of a blog tool pretty useless.
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> May 31, 2005 - 17:45 : laura s
> 
> I use ecto, set to MoveableType API,but so far I'm not able to repeat
> this problem.
> 
> 
> Could it be the client? I was also able to set Drupal's BlogAPI to the
> MetaWeblog setting and it seemed to work fine -- even with ecto set to
> MoveableType API. You might be able to try that as a workaround.
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> June 2, 2005 - 07:04 : mrmachine
> 
> I tried ecto on my son's Windows box, and yes - it does set categories
> correctly ... too bad there's no linux version
> 
> 
> but anyway, i tried changing Drupal's blogapi to Metaweblog, and kept
> Drivel and BlogTK set to Moveable Type API. It didn't work for Drivel,
> but it did for BlogTK ... thanx for the hint!
> 
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> June 5, 2005 - 09:36 : fflewddur
> 
> I've been trouble-shooting this issue using w.bloggar on Windows and
> Drivel on Linux.  w.bloggar is able to post using the Movable Type API,
> but the category selection only works if you click "Post", not "Post and
> Publish".  Drivel, by default, publishes all posts, which is why the
> category never shows up when using Drivel with Drupal.  To post entries
> with categories to an official Movable Type implementation, the client
> must first post the entry, then call mt.setPostCategories, and then
> call mt.publishPost.  The mt.publishPost call is what seems to be
> confusing Drupal, as it doesn't appear to differentiate between a post
> that has been published with one which has.  Movable Type does not
> publicly display posts which have not been published; it considers them
> as drafts which the author has not yet finished.  Thus, Movable Type
> servers require the mt.publishPost call.
> 
> 
> I have Ethereal traces of several example posts to Drupal using both
> w.bloggar in "post" and "post and publish" mode, as well as Drivel.  If
> you think they'd be useful in debugging, let me know and I'll forward
> them on to you.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Todd
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> June 8, 2005 - 22:57 : mrmachine
> 
> has anyone had a chance to look at this since Todd debugged it?
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> June 13, 2005 - 15:56 : mrmachine
> 
> can someone have a look at this?
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> June 13, 2005 - 19:05 : walkah
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> Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/blogapi-publish-post.patch (634 bytes)
> 
> having a look - it seems that mt.publishPost may well have been wiping
> the term info set by setCategory.
> 
> 
> As I only have ecto available to me currently, I can't test this
> patch... but if I understand the debugging work correctly - this should
> fix it. (the difference being ecto and MarsEdit - the two that I have
> access to currently - don't call publishPost).
> 
> 
> please confirm this fixes things... thanks. (I'll test more when I'm
> home again at the end of the week).
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> June 14, 2005 - 18:06 : mrmachine
> 
> beauty! this has fixed it for me!
> 
> 
> thanx
> shayne
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> June 14, 2005 - 23:29 : baudolino
> 
> This is not fixed until a decision about whether to commit this patch is
> made. Reverting this to patch status.
> 
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> June 19, 2005 - 15:25 : Dries
> 
> Actually, this is an annoying property of node_save() ...  I guess you
> can't use node_invoke_nodeapi($node, 'insert') or
> node_invoke_nodeapi($node, 'update')?
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