changeAlbumSettings not working - request & response msgs included

devbobo

I can't seem to get changeAlbumSettings to work, it always return a nearly empty response message. I realise that Matt already has a thread relating to this going, but I didn't want this info to get buried and not seen by the right people.

ok...here's the request I send...

<methodCall>
<methodName>changeAlbumSettings</methodName>
<params>
<param>
<value><string>ChangedToProtectTheInnocent</string></value>
</param>
<param>
<value><i4>399398</i4></value>
</param>
<param>
<value>
<struct>
<member>
<name>SubCategoryID</name>
<value><i4>59241</i4></value>
</member>
</struct>
</param>
</params>
</methodCall>

And here is the response I get back from this message...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<methodResponse>
<params>
<param>
<value>
<string/>
</value>
<param>
</params>
</methodResponse>

My request seems OK to me, if anyone can point out any problems, it would be appreciated.

Cheers,

David

mattmattbobatt

devbobo wrote:

I can't seem to get changeAlbumSettings to work, it always return a nearly empty response message. I realise that Matt already has a thread relating to this going, but I didn't want this info to get buried and not seen by the right people.

David

Thank goodness it's not just me. The bad part is that I spent a lot of hours on this. I originally thought I was sending malformed requests but I took the trouble to build another PHP test harness and I get the same results.

Matt

devbobo

mattmattbobatt wrote:

The bad part is that I spent a lot of hours on this. I originally thought I was sending malformed requests but I took the trouble to build another PHP test harness and I get the same results.

yeah, I get frustrated when I spend alot of time coding in some feature only to have it not work...cuz the API isn't working !!!

And this was the first method, that I have implemented for updating data to Smugmug, so you can imagine I was excited to see it work...but it didn't

Surprised that Nikolai hasn't come across this ?

David

Nikolai

I did...

devbobo wrote:

Surprised that Nikolai hasn't come across this ?

David

I wai.. spent quite some time when those API updates were posted. But, as I mentioned before, none of the issues I repeatedly reported were addressed, and things were getting crazy at work due to the trade show, so I simply gave up.
I am kinda surprised that despite of all our bug reports and frequent complaints NONE of the "new" APIs were fixed during these, what, 4 weeks? 6 weeks?

{ two paragraphs of snide remarks and salty comments erased :-}

Life is beautiful! :-)

There is a nice haiku thread at STF:
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1009&message=12454693

I posted few "Hopeless Haikus" there, too.
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1009&message=12480639

And here I just want to add one, specific to our situation:

Empty response
RPC-XML is not working
Nobody cares

Cheers!