PublishedAt, Url, Excerpt not working about ghostsharp HOT 18 CLOSED

Url and Excerpt have no effect, PublishedAt says: Unhandled exception. Validation error, cannot edit post - printing both dates - from source post and from a created post seem to be of the same format

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I just realised from your reply on the ghost forum that I should've used slug and not url, this one's working!

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Well, as I investigate, turns out I needed to use CustomExcerpt, not just Excerpt, so this one's off, too)

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Appreciate you letting me know, and troubleshooting it too. :)

Not all the fields are able to be changed/updated (like Url), and although I have them marked in the Post class itself, I'm not sure how best to convey that info clearly to whoever's using this. Maybe I should just put it right in the description on certain properties or something.

• I'll double-check Excerpt, but maybe that's a field that Ghost calculates itself, and CustomExcerpt overrides it if present?
• I have PublishedAt marked as updateable, but that "validation error, cannot edit post" message most likely means it's not... I'll check. It's probably calculated automatically when a post is published or something.

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I think this is the last thing I need to actually finish the script that I'm writing)

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Regarding what to do with these properties - make the setter private.
Also, Id of a post is not editable, I guess?

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I just released v1.0.8 to NuGet, so when that's available hopefully it'll work much better. That was a good idea with the private setters - no clue why I didn't do it that way from the beginning. 🙄 It did require a larger refactoring though, so there may be a couple breaking changes for you to contend with. Let me know how it goes.

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Still getting the same error with PublishedAt =(

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Would you mind showing me what you're doing with PublishedAt, maybe even sharing some of your code?

I've got a test in there now that creates a post, then updates that field to be 20 minutes later, then compares the two objects to make sure the time was really updated as expected. It's passing, but I could imagine I'm missing some edge case...

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Try setting the time to the past. I'm creating a post with PublishedAt = DateTime. It works if you set it to DateTime.Now, actually, but doesn't if it's in the past.

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I just tried that too, with a different test that creates a post, then updates it with a PublishedAt value that's a year in the past, and it succeeds. I'm at a loss!

I'll look more into it, along with some other stuff I noticed (like, creating pages doesn't actually create pages.. just more posts), but I'm short on time this week. Might not get a chance to look at it until this weekend.

I saw your question on the Ghost forums too, but I don't have a definite answer for you on that either. Need to try it out myself.

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I just tried that too, with a different test that creates a post, then updates it with a PublishedAt value that's a year in the past, and it succeeds. I'm at a loss!

I'll look more into it, along with some other stuff I noticed (like, creating pages doesn't actually create pages.. just more posts), but I'm short on time this week. Might not get a chance to look at it until this weekend.

I saw your question on the Ghost forums too, but I don't have a definite answer for you on that either. Need to try it out myself.

For the DELETE /tags/ - I don't see that you have it implemented, but I'd like to contribute, if you let me and give me a small guide on how to use the project

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I made more changes, so creating pages is actually supported now. Not that you're interested in that part necessarily, just pointing it out. 🤦‍♂️

I've got tests in there for updating pages and posts too, that cover the condition where a PublishedAt date is changed to something earlier - and they're both passing. So if it's still not working for you after updating to 1.0.9, seeing some code would really help.

As for deleting tags, it's not a stable endpoint yet, so I haven't put any time into it. There's no official api docs for it, but if you can do it via the Ghost web interface there's probably a way to support it. It would involve deleting tags while the browser console is open, watching the network tab to see when a call is made, and then digging through it to find the endpoint and the payload that it sends. It might be painful. 😏 And since it's listed as experimental, it's possible (I assume) that it could change without warning.

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Now it's saying the format is wrong o_O I tried setting it to Date of a wordpress post (using Wordpress PCL) and by creating a new DateTime (2020, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1);

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What's the full error? Are you getting that error when trying to create a post with a PublishedAt timestamp of Jan 1 2020?

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Got it working! Had to calculate the TimeSpan difference between DateTime.Now and the needed date and subtract that from DateTime.Now and then it worked!

Should I close the issue now?

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That's great, good to hear! Sure, I don't think there's a point in keeping this open, but let me know if you run into anything else.

I know you were trying to figure out the tags stuff, but I wouldn't know where to start with that quite yet, and I'd rather wait until their team feels things are stable on it.

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I actually deleted all the tags manually, so that's off the table)

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