metaWeblog.newPost Example

I wanted to post this for everyone that may be struggling with the metaWeblog API. The MSDN documentation is causing some confusion and I hope it will be corrected soon. In the mean time, here is an example:

Here is an example of a properly formed newPost request:

http://www.xml.com/2003/10/15/examples/metaweblog-example-request.txt

Here is a quick test that I ran using XMLHTTP:

var test ='<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>';
test = test +'<methodCall>';
test = test +'<methodName>metaWeblog.newPost</methodName>';
test = test +'<params>';
test = test +'<param>';
test = test +'<value><string>MyBlog</string></value>';
test = test +'</param>';
test = test +'<param>';
test = test +'<value><string>USERNAME</string></value>';
test = test +'</param>';
test = test +'<param>';
test = test +'<value><string>SECRETWORD</string></value>';
test = test +'</param>';
test = test +'<param>';
test = test +'<value><struct>';
test = test +'<member>';
test = test +'<name>category</name>';
test = test +'<value><string>Books</string></value>';
test = test +'</member>';
test = test +'<member>';
test = test +'<name>description</name>';
test = test +'<value><string>Hello World</string></value>';
test = test +'</member>';
test = test +'<member>';
test = test +'<name>title</name>';
test = test +'<value><string>Hello World Title</string></value>';
test = test +'</member>';
test = test +'</struct></value>';
test = test +'</param>';
test = test +'<param>';
test = test +'<value><boolean>1</boolean></value>';
test = test +'</param>';
test = test +'</params>';
test = test +'</methodCall>';

req =new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
req.open("POST","https://storage.msn.com/storageservice/MetaWeblog.rpc",false);

var mylength = test.length;

req.setRequestHeader("Content-length", mylength);
req.setRequestHeader("User-Agent","Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0;");
req.setRequestHeader("Content-Type","text/xml");

req.send(test);

var out = req.responseText;
document.write(out);

[5627 byte] By [ShawnClark-MSFT] at [2007-12-27]