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I was doing some stuff on the Drupal blogapi and noticed that they have changed the interfaces slightly in a way that broke an old favorite posting. The newPost and editPost functions now take a node type as a first argument instead of a blank string.

Here is updated code:

   1  def PostBlog():
   2      import xmlrpclib
   3      import re
   4  
   5      #
   6      # If first line contains a blog entry ID then edit existing post,
   7      # otherwise write a new one.
   8      #
   9      nFirstLine = 0
  10      strID = vim.current.buffer[0]
  11      if not re.match( '^\d+$', strID):
  12          strID = ''
  13      else:
  14          nFirstLine = 1
  15  
  16      strTitle = vim.current.buffer[nFirstLine]
  17      strText = "\n".join( vim.current.buffer[nFirstLine+1:])
  18  
  19      oDrupal = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy( strDrupal + '/xmlrpc.php')
  20  
  21      oPost = { 'title': strTitle,
  22                  'description': strText}
  23  
  24      if strID == '':
  25          strID = oDrupal.metaWeblog.newPost( 'blog', strUserName, strPassword, oPost, 1)
  26      else:
  27          bSuccess = oDrupal.metaWeblog.editPost( strID, strUserName, strPassword, oPost, 1)
  28  
  29      print "Posted entry %s" % strID
  30  
  31      #
  32      # Don't intend to write posts to disk so unmodify the buffer and
  33      # allow easy quit from VIM.
  34      #
  35      vim.command( 'set nomodified')
  36  
  37  def ReadBlog( strID = None):
  38      import xmlrpclib
  39  
  40      oDrupal = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy( strDrupal + '/xmlrpc.php')
  41      if strID:
  42          oBlog = oDrupal.metaWeblog.getPost( strID, strUserName, strPassword)
  43      else:
  44          oBlogs = oDrupal.metaWeblog.getRecentPosts( 'blog', strUserName, strPassword, 1)
  45          oBlog = oBlogs[0]
  46          strID = oBlog['postid']
  47  
  48      vim.current.buffer[:] = []
  49      vim.current.buffer[0] = strID
  50      vim.current.buffer.append( oBlog['title'])
  51      vim.current.buffer.append( '')
  52      for strLine in oBlog['description'].split('\n'):
  53          vim.current.buffer.append( strLine)
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