Re: [Syncato-general] State of MetaWeblog API?

[darryl <dev...@cs...>]

Garth Corral wrote:
> 
> On Jul 19, 2004, at 7:34 AM, darryl wrote:
> 
>> Patches appreciated !
>>
> Okay, here's a patch against the head in CVS that implements 
> mt_setPostCategories().  The rest of it is untouched save for a couple 
> of nits that I fixed.  Also, config.xml in the tree should probably be 
> changed to set <category-root-element> correctly for this to work from a 
> checkout.
> 


Patch applied. Thanks.

> 
> Not related to the syncato implementation, it's kind of an unpleasant 
> little protocol.  Not very flexible and a lot of overhead for not much 
> gain over GET/POST and friends.  I guess the gain comes from it being in 
> fairly widespread use.  Still.
> 
> 

Yes, the metaWeblog API is a beast. I'm hopefull atom will fix many of 
the problems. I like a REST-full approach vs. the RPC one.


-darryl