Yesterday I noticed that blogger API now supports posting as draft. This wasn’t the case when I wrote easyblogger - a cli tool to edit and post to Blogger from Vim.
In any case, since the API now has the ability, I updated EasyBlogger to post as draft. Trouble came when I went to update an existing draft - it fails with a 404
C:\Users\raghuramanr>easyblogger file c:\Users\raghuramanr\blogentries\a.sample.draft.md
raise HttpError(resp, content, uri=self.uri) googleapiclient.errors.HttpError: <HttpError 404 when requesting https://www.googleapis.com/blogger/v3/blogs/7642453/posts/1132458907272271320?alt=json&revert=false returned "Not Found">
Trying to get a post saved as draft fails - apparently, one needs to
pass in view="AUTHOR" to get drafts. fair enough..
But my first reaction? Sheer happiness! There’s hope!!! If Google can screw up REST API consistency and principle of least surprise, there’s hope for us mere mortals who write APIs at work in enterprisey situations that’re probably going to be consumed by one or more internal teams at most.
Anyway, here’s how I’ve patched it together but publishing it first, then editing it and then reverting it to a draft if needed. Yuck!
postStatus = service.posts().get(
blogId=self.blogId,
postId=postId,
view="AUTHOR",
fields="status"
).execute()['status']
mustRevert = postStatus != 'DRAFT' and isDraft
mustPublish = postStatus == 'DRAFT' and not isDraft
if postStatus == "DRAFT":
service.posts().publish(
blogId=self.blogId,
postId=postId
).execute()
resp = service.posts().patch(
blogId=self.blogId,
postId=postId,
body=blogPost,
revert=mustRevert,
publish=mustPublish).execute()
return resp
