14.7.11.Blogger Client API

varchar blogger.new_Post( in uri varchar, in req "blogRequest", in content varchar);
boolean blogger.delete_Post ( (in uri varchar, in req "blogRequest") );
boolean blogger.edit_Post( (in uri varchar, in req "blogRequest", in content varchar) );
blogPost blogger.get_Post( (in uri varchar, in req "blogRequest") );
vector blogger.get_Recent_Posts ( (in uri varchar, in req "blogRequest", in lim int) );

Example14.62.The Blogging Client

Create a new message.

SQL> select blogger.new_Post ('http://example.com/RPC2',
    blogRequest ('0123456789', 'home', '', 'dav', 'dav'),'test');
callret
VARCHAR
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6

1 Rows. -- 267 msec.

Edit a message created with previous step:

SQL> select blogger.edit_Post ('http://example.com/RPC2',
    blogRequest ('0123456789', 'home', '6', 'dav', 'dav'), 'test edited');
callret
VARCHAR
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1

1 Rows. -- 194 msec.

Get the message, result will be in a blogPost UDT:

SQL>  dbg_obj_print (blogger.get_Post ('http://example.com/RPC2',
      blogRequest ('0123456789', 'home', '6', 'dav', 'dav')));

Done. -- 120 msec.
---- server console ----
{
        REF:[ref:0xa0deb00 obj:0xa1ed168 DB.DBA.blogPost]
        content=N"test edited"
        dateCreated={ts 2003-04-08 15:34:13.000000}
        postid=N"6"
        userid=2
}
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get list of messages, in our case the result will be a vector with one element of blogPost UDT.

SQL> dbg_obj_print (blogger.get_Recent_Posts ('http://example.com/RPC2', blogRequest ('0123456789', 'home', '', 'dav', 'dav'), 10));

Done. -- 124 msec.

---- server console ----
({
        REF:[ref:0xa2426a8 obj:0xa20af40 DB.DBA.blogPost]
        content=N"test edited"
        dateCreated={ts 2003-04-08 15:34:13.000000}
        postid=N"6"
        userid=2
}
 )
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SQL> select blogger.delete_Post ('http://example.com/RPC2',
    blogRequest ('0123456789', 'home', '6', 'dav', 'dav'));
callret
VARCHAR
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1

1 Rows. -- 337 msec.

There are more examples on using the API in the tutorials.