Monday, November 08, 2010 at 12:01 AM.

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system.verbs.apps.metaWeblog.getCategories

on getCategories (blogid=nil, username=nil, password=nil, adrdata=@metaWeblog.data) {
	<<Changes
		<<12/3/05; 8:32:23 PM by DW
			<<Created. This is specified by the RFC, but until now we didn't have a glue script for it. 
			<<http://www.xmlrpc.com/metaWeblogApi
	local (url);
	metaWeblog.init ();
	bundle { //set defaults
		if username == nil {
			username = user.metaWeblog.username};
		if password == nil {
			password = string (user.metaWeblog.password)};
		if blogId == nil {
			blogId = user.metaWeblog.blogId}};
	url = "xmlrpc://" + adrdata^.server + ":" + adrdata^.port + adrdata^.rpcPath;
	return ([url].metaWeblog.getCategories (blogid, username, password))}
<<bundle //test code
	<<local (adrblog = @user.wordpress.blogs.default, data)
	<<local (username = adrblog^.username, password = string (adrblog^.password))
	<<local (blogid = 1)
	<<new (tabletype, @data)
	<<bundle //set up data
		<<local (urllist = string.urlsplit (adrblog^.url))
		<<new (tabletype, @data)
		<<data.protocol = "xml-rpc"
		<<data.port = 80
		<<data.rpcPath = "/" + urllist [3] 
		<<data.server = urllist [2]
	<<local (thelist = getCategories (blogid, username, password, @data), cats, item)
	<<new (tabletype, @cats)
	<<for item in thelist
		<<cats.[string.padwithzeros (sizeof (cats)+1, 3)] = item
	<<scratchpad.categories = cats

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This listing is for code that runs in the OPML Editor environment. I created these listings because I wanted the search engines to index it, so that when I want to look up something in my codebase I don't have to use the much slower search functionality in my object database. Dave Winer.