How do I use addProfilePicture() in python?

[Pat Corwin]

I'm looking at the docs: http://docs.atlassian.com/atlassian-confluence/latest/com/atlassian/confluence/rpc/soap/XhtmlSoapService.html#addProfilePicture(java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, byte[])

and I am able to login. Now I am trying to add a profile picture (I do have permissions) and the code looks like this:

with open('C:/roster/face.png', 'rb') as p:

pic = p.read()

server.confluence1.addProfilePicture( token, userName, 'face.png', 'image/png', pic )

And the (truncated for brevity) error I get is:

File "R:\Tools\Python\2.6\lib\xmlrpclib.py", line 604, in close

self._parser.Parse("", 1) # end of data

ExpatError: no element found: line 1, column 0

What am I doing wrong? I know my token and userName are correct. There isn't much direction for the mime type but it looks like that's all it expects. I hope the docs get more examples.

[Remo Siegwart · Accepted solution]

The following script works for me:

#!/usr/bin/python

import xmlrpclib

"""
create a proxy object with methods that can be used
to invoke corresponding RPC calls on the remote server
"""
server = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy('http://path.to.your.confluence/rpc/xmlrpc')

try:
    """ log in a user
    Returns a String authentication token to be passed as authentication to
    all other remote calls. It's not bulletproof auth, but it will do for now.
    Must be called before any other method in a 'remote conversation'.
    From 1.3 onwards, you can supply an empty string as the token to be treated
    as being the anonymous user.
    """
    token = server.confluence1.login('username', 'password');

    """ add profile picture
    Read a file and add it as new profile picture to specified user
    """
    pictureData = xmlrpclib.Binary(open('/path/to/avatar.png').read())
    profilePictureAdded = server.confluence1.addProfilePicture(token, 'username', 'avatar.png', 'image/png', pictureData)
    if profilePictureAdded:
        print "Successfully added new profile picture..."
    else:
        print "Failed to add new profile picture..."

except xmlrpclib.Fault, err:
    print "Fault code: %d" % err.faultCode
    print "Fault string: %s" % err.faultString

Hope this helps

[Pat Corwin]

I had to open() with 'rb', but that is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!