XMLRPC from iOS App New Post - ios

Question

I am trying to add ability to my app to post a new article to a wordpress blog. I know that Wordpress has the XMLRPC, but I am having issues in implementing the wp.newPost as there is little documentation outside of Ruby PHP or JAVA.
Here is what I have in my app:
-(IBAction)postNews {
NSURL *xmlrpcURL = [NSURL URLWithString:#"https://myurl.wordpress.com/xmlrpc.php"];
NSString *username = #"email#yahoo.com";
NSString *password = #"password";
NSString *title = #"Test";
NSString *content = #"This is a test of posting to the news section from the app.";
NSString *myRequestString = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"username=%#&password=%#&content=%#", username, password, title];
// Create Data from request
NSData *myRequestData = [NSData dataWithBytes: [myRequestString UTF8String] length: [myRequestString length]];
NSMutableURLRequest *request = [[NSMutableURLRequest alloc] initWithURL: xmlrpcURL];
// set Request Type
[request setHTTPMethod: #"POST"];
// Set content-type
[request setValue:#"application/x-www-form-urlencoded" forHTTPHeaderField:#"content-type"];
// Set Request Body
[request setHTTPBody: myRequestData];
// Now send a request and get Response
NSData *returnData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest: request returningResponse: nil error: nil];
// Log Response
NSString *response = [[NSString alloc] initWithBytes:[returnData bytes] length:[returnData length] encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSLog(#"%#",response);
}
I constantly get the response:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<methodResponse>
<fault>
<value>
<struct>
<member>
<name>faultCode</name>
<value><int>-32700</int></value>
</member>
<member>
<name>faultString</name>
<value><string>parse error. not well formed</string></value>
</member>
</struct>
</value>
</fault>
</methodResponse>
What am I doing wrong with this?

Answer 1

Ok, for those trying to do this, documentation for Obj-C is fairly difficult to find, but here is what I did. I first imported the XMLRPC Starter Kit from here. Next, in my app I defined the server username and password as it suggests, and in my action I used both an NSDictionary and NSArray for the post to go through. Again, this is for a simple text post to a wordpress blog.
NSString *server = kWordpressBaseURL;
XMLRPCRequest *reqFRC = [[XMLRPCRequest alloc] initWithHost:[NSURL URLWithString:server]];
NSDictionary* filter = #{
#"post_type": #"post",
#"post_status": #"publish",
#"post_title": #"Test Title",
#"post_content": #"Test Content",
};
NSArray *postParams = #[ #0, kWordpressUserName, kWordpressPassword, filter, #[#"post_title"]]; [reqFRC setMethod:#"wp.newPost" withObjects:postParams];
//The result for this method is a string so we know to send it into a NSString when making the call.
NSString *result = [self executeXMLRPCRequest:reqFRC];
[reqFRC release]; //Release the request
//Basic error checking
if( ![result isKindOfClass:[NSString class]] ) //error occured.
NSLog(#"demo.sayHello Response: %#", result);
Obviously, you can have text fields that you pull from for your blog post content, but this worked great!

Answer 2

U can add new posts using xmlrpc as given code
XMLRPCRequest *req = [[XMLRPCRequest alloc] initWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:#"your url name"]];
NSArray *yourparameter = #[#0,#"your user id",#"your password"];
[request setMethod:#"wp.newPost" withParameters:yourparameter];
XMLRPCResponse *saveRessponse = [XMLRPCConnection sendSynchronousXMLRPCRequest:req error:nil];
NSLog(#"The Response is%#",[saveRessponse object]);

Answer 3

You can add new post using xml-rpc as
XMLRPCRequest *reqFRC = [[XMLRPCRequest alloc] initWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:#"your url name"]];
// Set your url here.
NSArray *params = #[#0,#"your user id",#"your password"];
// Add your url parameters here.
[request setMethod:#"wp.newPost" withParameters:params]; // To add new post.
XMLRPCResponse *nodeSaveRessponse = [XMLRPCConnection sendSynchronousXMLRPCRequest:request error:nil];
NSLog(#"server response :%#",[nodeSaveRessponse object]);