Admin console in Support requests

[afuna]

Finally managed to finish a script I've been wanting to use for a while: Admin Console for Requests

It basically inserts a form below each request, where you can type in your desired commands, and then takes advantage of LJ's CSP to submit these. Your currently logged-on username is automatically detected, so no configuration is required.

I've integrated it with the synedit and synmerge Automator (though each script can also work as a standalone). If you are a Syn SH+ and have the admin console script installed, it will place the syn_* command in the console instead of as an IC. My goal is to reduce the effort it takes to respond to synedits -- also other things, but synedit is the only support-related console command I regularly use.

(All my scripts are available on this page.)

Also, trying not to babble on too much here, but I found the XMLRPC format interesting. However arrays are a pain and a half to work with.

Comments

[pne.livejournal.com]

So far, the little protocol hacking I've done has used the flat interface instead.

[afuna]

Hm. I thought about that, but isn't it recommended that you use the XMLRPC protocol? I thought that the flat one was deprecated for some reason.

[pne.livejournal.com]

Yes, I believe technically you're right.

But since XMLRPC seemed like hell to code yourself and I had no experience with modules that abstract it away for you, I just went with the flat interface which is easy as pie to parse and seemed to work quite well enough for my purposes - deprecated or not.

[afuna]

Given how much the arrays made my eyes cross... I may just follow your example next time :-)