Comments | lj_dev: Problem with XML-RPC and getfriends

andrewducker in lj_dev

Problem with XML-RPC and getfriends

Jan 10, 2009 11:44

I'm getting an invalid response back when doing a call to getfriends. I'm expecting "name" and "fullname" to be strings - but when the name is entirely numeric it's returned as an int instead. See this response segment for an example ( Read more... )

bugs: client protocol, client, client: friends, client: xmlrpc, bugs

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pauamma January 23 2009, 00:01:20 UTC

Think you could contribute a patch?

andrewducker January 23 2009, 09:05:17 UTC

Wouldn't that require me to check out a copy of the LJ code, get it running on a box of my own, work out what language LJ is written in, learn enough of it to work out where the error lies, fix it and test it?

As I don't even have a unix machine lying around, I'm not going to get very far with that :->

pauamma January 23 2009, 12:48:01 UTC

Fair enough. (I was going over unanswered entries trying to find a way to nudge them along.) That said, can you file a bug report in Dreamwidth's bug tracker? That will give you a better chance of getting a patch that can be included in an official LiveJournal bug report for backporting.

andrewducker January 23 2009, 13:28:42 UTC

I weep that the only way to get LJ to fix their code is to get someone else to fix it for them. It really doesn't give me confidence...

However, added.

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