Problem with Livewriter

K23 · Post by **K23** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 1:15 pm

Hi all,
I like Serendipity and want to use it with Windows Live Writer. Unfortunately I always get this error message when I want to publish a new post:
Die vom Weblogserver erhaltene Antwort auf die Methode metaWeblog.newPost ist ungültig: Invalid response document returned from XmlRpc server

The posting is not added to my blog (I saw some postings here which say that it's published nevertheless, but in my case it is not).

It also says during configuration that WLW could not download the template (which is not a problem for me but it might be helpful for bug searching).

In configuration I selected myDomain/serendipity_xmlrpc.php (by the way, when I open this manually it says:

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methodResponse>
−
	<fault>
−
	<value>
−
	<struct>
−
	<member>
<name>faultCode</name>
−
	<value>
<int>103</int>
</value>
</member>
−
	<member>
<name>faultString</name>
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	<value>
<string>XML error: no element found at line 1</string>
</value>
</member>
</struct>
</value>
</fault>
</methodResponse>

Screenshot here:

I then selected "Movable Type API" as proposed here.

XML-RPC Plugin is active.

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<?php # $Id: serendipity_xmlrpc.php 1055 2006-04-06 09:14:11Z garvinhicking $
# Copyright (c) 2003-2005, Jannis Hermanns (on behalf the Serendipity Developer Team)
# All rights reserved.  See LICENSE file for licensing details

if (!defined('S9Y_FRAMEWORK')) {
    require 'serendipity_config.inc.php';
}

$data = array();
serendipity_plugin_api::hook_event('frontend_xmlrpc', $data);

if (count($data) == 0) {
    die(XMLRPC_NO_LONGER_BUNDLED);
}

Any ideas?

Post by **garvinhicking** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 1:22 pm

Hi!

Inside the plugins' serendipity_event_xmlrpc.php or the .inc file there should be some DEBUG constant that you might want to enable, it can capture input and output data to a file on your server, allowing to inspect what might be wrong.

Sadly I myself do not have any knowledge with LiveWriter, but I think i've read that s9y users use it successfully...:

http://blog.softcat.org/index.php?/cate ... erendipity

HTH,
Garvin

K23 · Post by **K23** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 1:46 pm

Hi Garvin,

yes, I've read these docs, that's why I wanted to use the WLW. I've now seen that the new posting is added to my blog. In my first try I used some screenshots and a file attachments, and this does not seem to work. Additionally I saw this error message in the WLW Log:

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WindowsLiveWriter,5972,None,00005,16-Apr-2008 13:25:33.301,"Exception parsing XML-RPC response:

WindowsLive.Writer.CoreServices.XmlRpcClientInvalidResponseException: Invalid response document returned from XmlRpc server ---> System.Xml.XmlException: There are multiple root elements. Line 2, position 2.
   at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(Exception e)
   at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(String res, String arg)
   at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(Int32 pos, String res)
   at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseDocumentContent()
   at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Read()
   at System.Xml.XmlLoader.LoadNode(Boolean skipOverWhitespace)
   at System.Xml.XmlLoader.LoadDocSequence(XmlDocument parentDoc)
   at System.Xml.XmlLoader.Load(XmlDocument doc, XmlReader reader, Boolean preserveWhitespace)
   at System.Xml.XmlDocument.Load(XmlReader reader)
   at System.Xml.XmlDocument.LoadXml(String xml)
   at WindowsLive.Writer.CoreServices.XmlRpcMethodResponse..ctor(String responseText)
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
   at WindowsLive.Writer.CoreServices.XmlRpcMethodResponse..ctor(String responseText)
   at WindowsLive.Writer.CoreServices.XmlRpcClient.CallMethod(String methodName, XmlRpcValue[] parameters)

<br />
<b>Warning</b>:  cannot yet handle MBCS in html_entity_decode()! in <b>(my file path to serendipity)/plugins/serendipity_event_x",""
WindowsLiveWriter,5972,Fail,00006,16-Apr-2008 13:25:33.348,"WindowsLive.Writer.Extensibility.BlogClient.BlogClientInvalidServerResponseException: Ungültige Serverantwort - Die vom Weblogserver erhaltene Antwort auf die Methode metaWeblog.newPost ist ungültig:

Invalid response document returned from XmlRpc server

Post by **garvinhicking** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 1:50 pm

Hi!

It seems as if your PHP version is not able to handle some special characters sent by live writer and thus emits a PHP warning message. You can patch your plugin PHP files and add a "@" before the 2 function calls to html_entity_decode which should suppress this. I've added those supressions to the next version of the plugin, too.

HTH,
Garvin

K23 · Post by **K23** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 2:04 pm

Sorry Garvin,

I'm a bit lost: Which plugin PHP files do you mean? the xmlrpc.php does not seem to have this function

Post by **garvinhicking** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 2:11 pm

Hi!

The plugins/serendipity_event_xmlrpc/*xmlrpc*.php files

HTH,
Garvin

K23 · Post by **K23** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 2:31 pm

I wonder why the directory here is "/plugins/serendipity_event_xmlrpc/serendipity_event_xmlrpc/" so 2 times serendipity_event_xmlrpc. Is this correct?

And the correct entry would then be:
$entry['title'] = $post_array['title'],ENT_COMPAT,'UTF-8';

Post by **garvinhicking** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 4:26 pm

Hi!

No, this is not correct, you shouldn't have such a subdirectory. But on the other hand, serendipity can work with that fine as well.

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$entry['title']          = $post_array['title'],ENT_COMPAT,'UTF-8';

No, it would read

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$entry['title']          = @html_entity_decode($post_array['title'],ENT_COMPAT,'UTF-8');

HTH,
Garvin

K23 · Post by **K23** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 8:31 pm

Hi Garvin,

yes, that fixed it, thanks!

Unfortunately my other posting still could not be uploaded, probably because of the file attachment

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