http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/pythoncard/PythonCardPrototyp
e/samples/radioclient/

This is a program for playing around with XML-RPC, SOAP, and the Blogger API
using a Radio Userland 8 server. The sample used to be called bloggertest,
but I renamed it.

The big readme.txt file is included at the end of this message.

I've spent a lot of time in the last two weeks playing with XML-RPC, Blogger
and SOAP and I wanted to have a sample that was simpler to modify and
experiment with than Simon's textRouter. You should not use radioclient
without the understanding that you are working on live data and could
corrupt your blog, so user beware (see the readme). radioclient starts up
the shell automatically and imports xmlrpclib and Mark Pilgrim's blogger
module, which I included with the sample. This makes it relatively simple to
run additional tests from the shell, so I also included a tests directory of
various XML-RPC, SOAP, and blogger tests I've run so far.

I expect that Dan Shafer, myself and possibly others will have more to say
about this sample in the future. I hope we might do some tutorials to
introduce people to client web services using PythonCard as well as
modifications to the app so it can interact with other blog sites.

ka
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readme.txt:

This app is a playground of sorts for testing XML-RPC, the Blogger API, and
SOAP using a local Radio Userland 8 server. The interface is designed for
easy testing and experimenting in Python, so it is not particularly user
friendly. If you know the IP address, username, and password for a remote
server, radioclient can also talk to that box by changing the following line
in the on_openBackground method:

        # username, password, server url
        self.blog = RadioBloggerSite('', '', 'http://127.0.0.1:5335/RPC2')

*** A WARNING ***
This is not a commercial tool supported by Userland or connected in any way
with the Radio Userland 8 product. This is a development app done by open
source developers that use Radio and is part of the PythonCard samples
designed to help stress and show off the PythonCard framework.

Since this app is talking to a live server, you are viewing, adding,
editing, and deleting real data. If you are using the default Radio
settings, your changes will be upstreamed to the public Radio server as
changes are made. You should keep backups of your data, templates, and
generated pages.
*** YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED ***

WINDOWS ONLY
Radio 8 is only available for Windows and the Macintosh. PythonCard, which
relies on wxPython, works on Windows and Linux/GTK, but isn't available on
the Mac yet, except using a Windows emulator or running wxGTK on Mac OS X.
So, for the time being this sample is effectively just for Windows users
that also have Radio 8.

RADIO AND THE BLOGGER API
Radio implements the Blogger API as defined at
http://plant.blogger.com/api/index.html
As of Radio 8.0.2
  it doesn't implement getUserInfo
  getUsersBlogs returns info about the public Radio server not the local
server
  getTemplate and setTemplate appear to only work with the 'main' template
This test app will be updated as changes are made to the blogger api in
Radio


Over time, this app might be expanded to include additional tests against
other XML-RPC, Blogger API, and SOAP web services. The tests folder contains
interactive shell sessions using various web service libraries.

Note that wxPython has a great multi-column list control called wxListCtrl
that will eventually be supported in PythonCard. Until then, the columns are
being simulated with tabs and/or spaces in a plain List.



WEBLOGS PING
Mark is supposed to just wrap this one-liner into blogger.py, so I'm not
going
to add it to my own wrapper classes unless he doesn't do that soon.

# http://diveintomark.org/archives/00000054.html
"Actually, XML-RPC is easier in Python than almost any other language,
because the XML-RPC library uses a very cool feature of Python called
"dynamic binding" to create a kind of virtual proxy that lets you call
remote functions with exactly the same syntax as calling local functions.

import xmlrpclib
remoteServer = xmlrpclib.Server("http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2")
remoteServer.weblogUpdates.ping(SITE_NAME, SITE_URL)

This short example pings weblogs.com to tell it that your weblog has
changed. I use this script to connect this Greymatter weblog to the
weblogs.com community (since Greymatter has no weblogs.com support built
in). But the point here is the syntax of that third line: it's the same
syntax as calling a local function. Once the proxy (remoteServer) is set up,
the XML-RPC library makes the object act as if it has a weblogUpdates object
within it and a ping method within that. It's all a lie, of course; under
the covers it's constructing an XML-RPC request and sending it off, and then
receiving an XML-RPC response and parsing it and returning a native Python
object. But I, as a Python developer, don't have to worry about all that if
I don't want to, and I don't have to learn a new syntax for calling remote
functions."


REFERENCES

Python
http://www.python.org/

win32 extensions
http://starship.python.net/crew/mhammond/win32/Downloads.html

wxPython
http://www.wxpython.org/
windows binaries at: http://www.wxpython.org/download.php#binaries

PythonCard
http://pythoncard.sourceforge.net/

xmlrpclib (use 0.9.9 if you have Python 2.1.x, it is included as part of
Python 2.2)
http://www.pythonware.com/downloads/index.htm#xmlrpc

pyblogger
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyblogger/

The Blogger API
http://plant.blogger.com/api/index.html

Radio Userland 8
http://radio.userland.com/

emulatingBloggerInRadio
http://radio.userland.com/emulatingBloggerInRadio

emulatingBloggerInManila
http://scriptingnews.userland.com/backissues/2001/08/24#manilaSupportsTheBlo
ggerApi
http://frontier.userland.com/emulatingBloggerInManila
http://bloggerapitest.manilasites.com/

textRouter (a manila/blogger app written in PythonCard by Simon Kittle)
http://simon.kittle.info/textrouter

Python.Scripting: Python, XML-RPC and SOAP
http://python.scripting.com/

Python and XML: An Introduction
http://www.infector.com/Paul/Python/XML_intro.html



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