Livejournal Suckage

[andrewducker]

Doing more stuff with XML-RPC and the LJ clients API. And discovered that if the username is an integer (as with 0000007, for instance) it returns it as an integer rather than a string. As the framework I'm using expects data to always be returned with the same type this is less than entirely useful.

So I tried to post to lj_dev and ask if this is something fixable, but am having problems doing so from the semagic client. And then tried to post from the update page and got told I already had too many items in the queue. Of course, I can't _see_ the item in the queue, so I can't tell if one of my attempts at posting almost got through, or if something more befuddling has occurred.

Bugger this for a lark, I'm off to play Buffy.

Comments

[draconid.livejournal.com]

This is a standard thing with moderated communities. If it says you have too many items in the queue it means you have a post waiting to be unmoderated.

[andrewducker]

Yeah - I'm assuming that my post has got through - but I can't actually tell if it did, considering the client kept complaining.

Oh well, I'm sure I'll find out with time.

[darkoshi]

Are you not able to do a .toString or some function like that on the returned value, to avoid the problem?

[andrewducker]

Sadly, the username then comes out as "7" - because when something is returned as an int any leading zeroes are lost...

[azalemeth.livejournal.com]

Casting?

[andrewducker]

You can't cast from an int to a string.

I can parse it, of course. But the library doesn't make that terribly easy.