The Atom API is an application level protocol for publishing and editing web resources. The protocol at its core is the HTTP transport of Atom formatted representations. You can find more information about the Atom project at the Atom Enabled website.

Installation and default configuration for the Atom API

Atom API support in blojsom is enabled by default and is configured through /WEB-INF/web.xml. The authorized users who are allowed to post using the Atom API are also specified in the individual /WEB-INF/(blog-id)/authorization.properties files as with the XML-RPC support for the Blogger and MetaWeblog APIs.

Edit the contents of an individual /WEB-INF/(blog-id)/authorization.properties to setup all the valid username/password pairs to control who can post via the Atom API. That's all there is to setting up Atom API support.

To send a message to the service, point your Atom API client at the Atom API URL:

http://your.blog.com/blojsom/atomapi/blog-id/

Replace your.blog.com with the url for your blog and get blogging! We also have a page on setting up blojsom to work with various blogging clients.

Atom API Permission As of blojsom 2.23, users must have the global permission or the post_via_atom_api permission to use the Atom API. This permission is not required for a blog to syndicate its content via the Atom syndication format.