Proposal: Web Services / API / Refactoring Opportunity

Re: Proposal: Web Services / API / Refactoring Opportunity

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Jason Noble wrote "If anyone is still looking for a solution for this problem, my company has published our XML-RPC module."

Jason, I have a couple of question about the SML-RPC module...

QUESTION #1

If I use CreateAccount, I receive SUCCESS, and if I try CreateAccount again (with same info), I get FAIL: USER ALREADY EXISTS, which is what I should get. If I login to Moodle, I can confirm as well that the new user has been created.

But if I try DisableAccount, I get the following error: FAIL: USER DOES NOT EXIST. Since the user does exist, I'm not sure why I'm getting this error:

Here is the code I'm using for CREATE (which works fine), based on the test file provided:

<?php
include("../config.php");
include("xmlrpcutils/utils.php");
$host = $CFG->dbhost;
$port = 80;
$uri = $CFG->wwwroot."/xmlrpc/xmlrpc.php";
$method = "CreateAccount";
$m_user['username']='testuser';
$m_user['firstname']='John';
$m_user['lastname']='Doe';
$m_user['email']='johndoe@mydomain.com';
$m_user['timemodified'] = time();
$m_user['password'] = md5('password');
$m_user['confirmed']=1;
$callspec = array(
'method' => $method,
'host' => $host,
'port' => $port,
'uri' => $uri,
'user' => 'username',
'pass' => 'password',
'secure' => false,
'debug' => true,
'args' => $m_user);
$result = xu_rpc_http_concise($callspec);
print_r($result);
?>

Here is the code I'm using for DISABLE. All I've done is change the METHOD to DisableAccount, and removed all $m_user variables except for the USERNAME.

<?php
include("../config.php");
include("xmlrpcutils/utils.php");
$host = $CFG->dbhost;
$port = 80;
$uri = $CFG->wwwroot."/xmlrpc/xmlrpc.php";
$method = "DisableAccount";
$m_user['username']='testuser';
$callspec = array(
'method' => $method,
'host' => $host,
'port' => $port,
'uri' => $uri,
'user' => 'username',
'pass' => 'password',
'secure' => false,
'debug' => true,
'args' => $m_user);
$result = xu_rpc_http_concise($callspec);
print_r($result);
?>

Any idea why it's not working? Do I need to pass other variables along besides the username?

QUESTION #2

Looking at the code in the XMLRPC.php file, it appears that the DisableAccountById does the same thing Moodle would do if you selected Delete User within User Admin. By that I mean it sets DELETED=1 , Changes the USERNAME=EMAIL ADDRESS, and sets the EMAIL=""

When looking at the code for DisableAccount, it does not appear to do all that. It only appears to set DELETED=1, but not perform the other changes.

I am not an expert in php, so I might be missing something obvious, but just thought I'd mention it.

THanks

EDIT: I'm using Moodle 1.6.4

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