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

[James Walker]

This isn't about setting categories on publish post... it's that  
node_save() does not retain taxonomy information (as Dries suggests -  
this is a long-standing issue).

On 23-Jun-05, at 5:53 PM, Earl Dunovant wrote:

> 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?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>> 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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