Little brick walls
As I have developed the new Manila site export mechanism the have been a few little brick walls I needed to break thru to keep the process moving forward.
In my first pass over the requirements of this project I tried to do as many proof of concept runs to try to get a handle on what looked like the most difficult tasks in actually trying to export a Manila site entirely via XML-RPC to WordPress.
At the top of the list it a seemed was the fact that the call (getting techie here) ‘metaWeblog.newMediaObject’ did not seem to want to work at all with WordPress. So of course this became the very first task I undertook, since it appeared to be a show-stopper if I couldn’t lick it.
After a days or so of moderate hair pulling I finally pinpointed the problem within the Manila server.
Once I corrected the bad code it fired right up on the WordPress end and thus the chief obstacle as far as I could see at that time had been knocked off.