Bug: smugmug.subcategories.create fails

luke_church

Description: Calls to smugmug.subcategories.create return an empty string value, and seemingly do not create a subcategory:

Behaviour confirmed on
XML-RPC 1.1.0 and XML-RPC 1.1.1 BETA

[php]

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<methodCall>
<methodName>smugmug.subcategories.create</methodName>
<params>
<param>
<value>
<string>...</string>
</value>
</param>
<param>
<value>
<string>SubTestCategory73703503</string>
</value>
</param>
<param>
<value>
<i4>0</i4>
</value>
</param>
</params>
</methodCall>
Header
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<methodResponse>
<params>
<param>
<value>
<string/>
</value>
</param>
</params>
</methodResponse>

[/php]

luke_church

Allocated: ST00004
Allocated bug code ST00004. Bug replicated today. (15-Feb-06)

Workaround via HTTP Post (included in SmugTools Release 1, unless bug gets fixed before release date).

C#, won't directly compile outside the SmugTools framework, but the meaning should be obvious.

A real implementation would also need error handling (as always...)

//Create a new webclient
WebClient client = new WebClient();
client.BaseAddress = "[URL="http://www.smugmug.com/homepage/newsubcat.mg"]http://www.smugmug.com/homepage/newsubcat.mg[/URL]";
 
client.Headers.Add("Cookie:SMSESS=" + this.credentials.SessionID);
NameValueCollection queryStringCollection = new NameValueCollection();
queryStringCollection.Add("Name", name);
queryStringCollection.Add("CategoryID", categoryID.ToString());
queryStringCollection.Add("newsubcat", "add+subcategory");
 
client.UploadValues(client.BaseAddress, queryStringCollection);
 
//Now do readback to find the ID
SubCategory[] subcats = GetSubCategories(categoryID);
foreach (SubCategory subcat in subcats)
if (subcat.Title == name)
{
return subcat.SubCategoryID; //Success breakout
}

Tested against standard, power and pro grade accounts. SmugTools development build, Microsoft .NET 2.0.

As always with bug workarounds, this is not part of the offical Smugug API and is subject to change without notice. It is provided for your information only.

Hope this helps,

Luke