Cannot edit images after upload

[ksomervi]

When I upload images using client.call(media.UploadFile(data)), the uploaded images cannot be edited in wordpress.

I suspect I'm doing something wrong.
Thanks

[ksomervi]

Looking at the Wordpress documentation, it says under wp.uploadFile (http://codex.wordpress.org/XML-RPC_WordPress_API/Media#wp.uploadFile)
"string bits: binary data. Shouldn't be base64-encoded."

From searching the web, it seems that the documentation used to say that it "should be base64-encoded"

When did this change? Looking in the xmlrpc PHP file, I don't see it base64 decoding the file.

[maxcutler]

I don't know why the Codex says that, it absolutely should be sent as an XML-RPC <base64> element. This gets decoded in wp-includes/class-IXR.php, which is the XML-RPC server implementation within WordPress.

For the Edit button not appearing, you can take a look at the code for that button here: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.9/src/wp-admin/includes/media.php#L1365. It's possible that you are missing a MIME-type or else something is going wrong with the upload.

Can you share the code you are using to upload? If you are using the example from our docs (http://python-wordpress-xmlrpc.readthedocs.org/en/latest/examples/media.html#uploading-a-file), be sure that the mime-type in the data dictionary actually matches the file that you're uploading. See the note on that example for how to dynamically detect the mimetype rather than hard-code it.

[ksomervi]

It's pretty much a copy of your example with upfront image shrinking, but the code is at https://github.com/ksomervi/sift/blob/master/sift.py. You are right with the mime-type. I was using 'image/jpg' instead of 'image/jpeg'. With that corrected, it works.

[smack forehead]

Thank you.

[ksomervi]

I did notice that example has the mistake that lead me astray.
From http://python-wordpress-xmlrpc.readthedocs.org/en/latest/examples/media.html:

# prepare metadata
data = {
        'name': 'picture.jpg',
        'type': 'image/jpg',  # mimetype -- this should be 'image/jpeg'
}

and in the response

response = client.call(media.UploadFile(data))
# response == {
#       'id': 6,
#       'file': 'picture.jpg'
#       'url': 'http://www.example.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/16/picture.jpg',
#       'type': 'image/jpg', -- This should also be 'image/jpeg'
# }