Preserve the name of the author of comments

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Preserve the name of the author of comments

asuh opened this issue 8 years ago · 10 comments

I've tried to go through the file and figure out how to preserve the name of the comment authors who aren't the journal author and I'm not sure what to do.

Is it non-trivial to preserve the comment authors' names?

I think this is the only missing and somewhat important feature that needs to be added to this script. Otherwise, it works exactly as it should from my testing.

Answer 1 · 2017-02-09T03:33:20.000Z

That's a good question :-) LJBackup does capture the username of comment authors, and I thought the script handled that well. Do you mean comment authors that don't have an LJ account?

Answer 2 · 2017-02-09T03:52:31.000Z

Strange, no comments preserved the author names after I imported the xml. Every comment is left by "Anonymous", even the ones I wrote. Are you seeing different results?

Answer 3 · 2017-02-09T04:00:59.000Z

Weird - yeah, my posts have the author's name (see this post for a quick example. Look in your LJ XML file for lines like this:

  <comment posterid='4532903' username='wonderjess' date='2016-11-16T01:44:53+00:00'>

The username should be the LJ username and the posterid is their LJ ID. What do yours look like?

Answer 4 · 2017-02-09T04:20:57.000Z

Yes, all of the XML information, including the LJ username, posterId, and LJ ID, was corrected saved and appears to be there. It was the process of converting them to WP data that it didn't transfer the author names to the comments.

Answer 5 · 2017-02-10T01:34:27.000Z

Hmm, OK. In the WordPress XML, then, you should see some <wp:comment> elements that have a <wp:comment_author> child, like so:

  <wp:comment>
    <wp:comment_id>1</wp:comment_id>
    <wp:comment_author>djedi</wp:comment_author>
    <wp:comment_author_url />
    <wp:comment_author_IP />
    <wp:comment_date>2016-10-03 22:17:38</wp:comment_date>
    <wp:comment_date_gmt>2016-10-03 22:17:38</wp:comment_date_gmt>
    <wp:comment_content>a comment</wp:comment_content>
    <wp:comment_approved>1</wp:comment_approved>
    <wp:comment_type />
    <wp:comment_parent>0</wp:comment_parent>
  </wp:comment>

Do the comments in the XML file have their author as "Anonymous"?

Answer 6 · 2017-02-10T02:10:53.000Z

Well that would explain it. None of my comments have the line <wp:comment_author>. They skip from the ID to the URL. I'm not sure why the author name wasn't converted from allPosts.xml file where they do exist.

Answer 7 · 2017-02-10T02:37:14.000Z

It skips the <wp:comment_author> if it doesn't see a username in the comment in the LJ XML file. So can you post a <comment> element from your LJ XML file? I'm at a bit of a loss here...

Answer 8 · 2017-02-10T02:40:51.000Z

Here's an example of comments throughout the xml file.

    <comments>
      <comment posterid='10113733' username='abcd' date='2009-11-18T00:35:49+00:00'>
        <body>
          &quot;Man, you read about it but don&apos;t get it until it happens to
          you.&quot; See? ;)
        </body>
        <replies>
          <comment posterid='1807965' username='efgh' date='2009-11-18T05:09:53+00:00'>
            <body>
              I&apos;ve read of reverse culture shock before but it&apos;s weird
              to experience first hand!
            </body>
          </comment>
        </replies>
      </comment>
    </comments>

Answer 9 · 2017-02-10T03:20:43.000Z

Thanks for the example! I don't know why the script wasn't detecting the usernames in your file and was in mine, but I fixed the issue in commit aad3cad.

Answer 10 · 2017-02-10T07:14:32.000Z

Nice, I'll give that a try and report back if there's any other issues.