RFC: Rounding out the MetaWeblog API

Wed, May 7, 2003; by Dave Winer.

The MetaWeblog API was originally designed, in 2002, to add functionality to the then-popular Blogger API. It was not intended to replace the Blogger API, rather to augment it.

Now, with Blogger abandoning its own API in favor of a new one, confusingly also called the Blogger API, it's time to round out the MetaWeblog API so it preserves the functionality that Blogger is abandoning, and includes the augmentation.

New entry-points 

metaWeblog.deletePost (appkey, postid, username, password, publish) returns boolean

metaWeblog.getTemplate (appkey, blogid, username, password, templateType) returns string

metaWeblog.setTemplate (appkey, blogid, username, password, template, templateType) returns boolean

metaWeblog.getUsersBlogs (appkey, username, password) returns array

Discussion 

The entry-points work as they did in the original Blogger API.

Plan 

After a brief comment period, I'll revise the MetaWeblog API spec to include all the changes since its release.