Starting the New Year the way it's supposed to be

[andrewducker]

I have, so far, two entries in my New Years "Things to do" list. The second one is "Write a Livejournal client" - something which got started yesterday afternoon, and has been continued this morning.

I've mostly spent the time learning a bit about XML-RPC, finding a handy framework for doing such with C#, and playing around with it until I could get _something_ working. As of five minutes ago I finally have it sending a valid login request and retrieving a list of friends groups and journals with posting access.

The finished product will, eventually, allow you to edit friends lists in a much more usable way, as I'm forever pissed off with the limitations of both the website and the semagic client. This will have to wait, however, as I'm now going to grab a quick shower and head into town.

Comments

[easterbunny.livejournal.com]

Could you recommend a reference or tutorial for XML-RPC?

[andrewducker]

Not really, I'm afraid. I mostly looked at examples, used a proxy to examine the XML that was being passed across, and played with it until I got the hang of it. Should you be wanting a free framework for C# I can suggest something, but that's about my limit (and not very helpful to you, as ISTR you're a Java/C++ person)

[azalemeth.livejournal.com]

There is an *excellent* PERL library somewhere. I won't get all preachy and so forth (I look forward to trying your client, if I may!), but when I had to make 400+ entries friends-only, it let me do it in about 5 lines starting with #/usr/bin/perl....

[andrewducker]

Oh, I'm sure there is. But the login code in C# wasn't a vast amount more than that:

ILJLogin loginProxy = XmlRpcProxyGen.Create();
LoginRequest loginRequest = new LoginRequest("test","test");
ILJLoginResponse ljLoginResponse = loginProxy.login(loginRequest);

Which I could simplify further, but I'd lose some flexibility.