def getCategories(self, blogid, username, password):
"""See IMetaWeblogAPI.
"""
weblog = IUIDManager(self.context).getByUID(blogid)
weblog = IWeblog(weblog)
topics = weblog.getTopics()
# 2005-12-13 tomster:
# this is kind of ugly: according to the RFC we should return an array
# of structs, but according to http://typo.leetsoft.com/trac/ticket/256
# (at least) MarsEdit and ecto expect an array of strings containing the
# category id.
# Nigel: To accommodate ecto and other blogging clients we are going to
# do this test to decide what format the topics should be returned in
useragent = self.request['HTTP_USER_AGENT']
if "ecto" in useragent or "Mars" in useragent:
#self.plone_log("MetaWeblogAPI", "Using ecto/MarsEdit hack")
categories = [topic.getId() for topic in topics]
else:
categories = []
for topic in topics:
categories.append(
{'description' : topic.getId(),
'htmlUrl' : topic.absolute_url(),
'rssUrl' : '%s/rss.xml' % topic.absolute_url(),
})
return categories
