Small change to webapi

[Shawn]

I was playing with the web api in an mIRC script and I can’t figure out a way to tell if the userid that was given is an invalid number

A valid number returns something like this:

@WebAPI

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:54:33 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.11 (FreeBSD) mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.8e DAV/2 PHP/5.2.9 with Suhosin-Patch SVN/1.6.2
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.9
Content-Length: 866
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8

<?xml version="1.0"?> 2010-09-04 02:22:35 1 wasted Netherlands 2003-02-09 http://whatpulse.org 2010-08-03 19:21:54 2606 33236496 5913594 936.84 12754 2269 0.14 0.03 1172 0

An invalid one returns:

@WebAPI

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:52:27 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.11 (FreeBSD) mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.8e DAV/2 PHP/5.2.9 with Suhosin-Patch SVN/1.6.2
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.9
Content-Length: 866
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8

So I really don’t know how to tell if there’s an invalid number or not
If you could do something like:

[QUOTE=WebAPI]
INVALID USER</UserID/>
[/quote]
It would make life a lot easier for me.

Now on a related note, there currently doesn’t seem to be a way to get someone’s UserID based on their account name with the WebAPI, a way to either search by AccountName instaed of UserID would be great, or a way to get a UserID by using the AccountName would be sufficient for what I’d like to do.

Any comments/feedback/etc are welcome.

[Century0]

Just use a conditional if to find out if any data was returned after the XML parse. As for searching for userIDs…that’ll be for wasted to help you with.

~Century0