I started working on asLJ after I came across this. One of the problems that I quickly ran into was that the URLs in the
tell application "<url>" to call xmlrpc ...
bits had to be hard-coded. That is, AppleScript didn’t like it when I tried to assemble the URL string on the fly. It took me a while to come up with a workaround, which should slightly impact the speed of the call, but doesn’t seem to make a noticeable difference. Here’s my generic handler for making LJ-based server XML-RPC calls:
– make a LiveJournal-type XML-RPC call to serverString for the method methodName with the parameters in parameterArray
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on callLJraw(serverString, methodName, parameterArray)
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run script "on run {paramArray}
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tell application \"http://" & serverString & "/interface/xmlrpc\" to call xmlrpc ¬
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{method name:\"LJ.XMLRPC.\" & \"" & methodName & "\", parameters:{paramArray}}
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end run" with parameters {parameterArray}
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return result
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end callLJraw
