public String newPost()

in app/src/main/java/org/apache/roller/weblogger/webservices/xmlrpc/MetaWeblogAPIHandler.java [222:315]
75 lines of code
14 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

    public String newPost(String blogid, String userid, String password,
            Hashtable<String, ?> struct, boolean publish) throws Exception {
        
        mLogger.debug("newPost() Called ===========[ SUPPORTED ]=====");
        mLogger.debug("     BlogId: " + blogid);
        mLogger.debug("     UserId: " + userid);
        mLogger.debug("    Publish: " + publish);
        
        Weblog website = validate(blogid, userid, password);
        
        Hashtable<String, ?> postcontent = struct;
        String description = (String)postcontent.get("description");
        String title = (String)postcontent.get("title");
        if (StringUtils.isEmpty(title) && StringUtils.isEmpty(description)) {
            throw new XmlRpcException(
                    BLOGGERAPI_INCOMPLETE_POST, "Must specify title or description");
        }
        if (StringUtils.isEmpty(title)) {
            title = Utilities.truncateNicely(description, 15, 15, "...");
        }
        
        Date dateCreated = (Date)postcontent.get("dateCreated");
        if (dateCreated == null) {
            dateCreated = (Date)postcontent.get("pubDate");
        }
        if (dateCreated == null) {
            dateCreated = new Date();
        }
        mLogger.debug("      Title: " + title);
        
        try {
            Weblogger roller = WebloggerFactory.getWeblogger();
            WeblogEntryManager weblogMgr = roller.getWeblogEntryManager();
            User user = roller.getUserManager().getUserByUserName(userid);
            Timestamp current = new Timestamp(System.currentTimeMillis());
            
            WeblogEntry entry = new WeblogEntry();
            entry.setTitle(title);
            entry.setText(description);
            entry.setLocale(website.getLocale());
            entry.setPubTime(new Timestamp(dateCreated.getTime()));
            entry.setUpdateTime(current);
            entry.setWebsite(website);
            entry.setCreatorUserName(user.getUserName());
            entry.setCommentDays(website.getDefaultCommentDays());
            entry.setAllowComments(website.getDefaultAllowComments());
        
            if (publish) {
                entry.setStatus(PubStatus.PUBLISHED);
            } else {
                entry.setStatus(PubStatus.DRAFT);
            }
            
            // MetaWeblog supports multiple cats, Weblogger supports one/entry
            // so here we take accept the first category that exists
            WeblogCategory rollerCat = null;
            if ( postcontent.get("categories") != null ) {
                Object[] cats = (Object[])postcontent.get("categories");
                if (cats != null && cats.length > 0) {
                    mLogger.debug("cats type - "+cats[0].getClass().getName());
                    mLogger.debug("cat to string - "+cats[0].toString());
                    for (int i=0; i<cats.length; i++) {
                        Object cat = cats[i];
                        rollerCat = weblogMgr.getWeblogCategoryByName(website, (String)cat);
                        if (rollerCat != null) {
                            entry.setCategory(rollerCat);
                            break;
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
            if (rollerCat == null) {
                // or we fall back to the default Blogger API category
                entry.setCategory(website.getBloggerCategory());
            }
            
            // save the entry
            weblogMgr.saveWeblogEntry(entry);
            roller.flush();
            
            // notify cache
            flushPageCache(entry.getWebsite());
            
            // TODO: Weblogger timestamps need better than 1 second accuracy
            // Until then, we can't allow more than one post per second
            Thread.sleep(RollerConstants.SEC_IN_MS);
            
            return entry.getId();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            String msg = "ERROR in MetaWeblogAPIHandler.newPost";
            mLogger.error(msg,e);
            throw new XmlRpcException(UNKNOWN_EXCEPTION, msg);
        }
    }