Passing local file path to remote add-item?

Hi,

I'm trying to get a Python script working that will go through a set of directories on a regular basis and check for new files and then add them to gallery2. I found a prewritten package for the remote protocol which works great for queries, however I can't seem to get the add_item function to work.

link to file: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/GalleryRemote/

This is the add_item function included...

    def add_item(self, album, filename, caption, description):
        """
        Add a photo to the specified album.
        album - album name / identifier
        filename - image to upload
        caption - string caption to add to the image
        description - string description to add to the image
        """
        if self.version == 1:
            request = {
                'protocol_version' : self.protocol_version,
                'cmd' : 'add-item',
                'set_albumName' : album,
                'userfile' : file,
                'userfile_name' : filename,
                'caption' : caption,
                'extrafield.Description' : description
            }
        else:
            request = {
                'g2_controller' : 'remote:GalleryRemote',
                'g2_form[protocol_version]' : self.protocol_version,
                'g2_form[cmd]' : 'add-item',
                'g2_form[set_albumName]' : album,
                'g2_form[userfile]' : file,
                'g2_form[userfile_name]' : filename,
                'g2_form[caption]' : caption,
                'g2_form[extrafield.Description]' : description
            }
        file = open(filename)
        response = self._do_request(request)
        # if we get here, everything went ok.

I'm not sure this function was ever tested as:

1) The use of file before assignment throws an error.

2) Judging from the remote protocol documentation the feilds for g2_form[userfile] and g2_form[userfile_name] should be g2_userfile and g2_userfile_name.

I tried changing it to this...

    def add_item(self, album, filename, caption, description):
        """
        Add a photo to the specified album.
        album - album name / identifier
        filename - image to upload
        caption - string caption to add to the image
        description - string description to add to the image
        """
        if self.version == 1:
            request = {
                'protocol_version' : self.protocol_version,
                'cmd' : 'add-item',
                'set_albumName' : album,
                'userfile' : file,
                'userfile_name' : filename,
                'caption' : caption,
                'extrafield.Description' : description
            }
        else:
            request = {
                'g2_controller' : 'remote:GalleryRemote',
                'g2_form[protocol_version]' : self.protocol_version,
                'g2_form[cmd]' : 'add-item',
                'g2_form[set_albumName]' : album,
                'g2_userfile' : filename,
                'g2_userfile_name' : filename,
		'g2_form[force_filename]' : 'yes',
                'g2_form[caption]' : caption,
                'g2_form[extrafield.Description]' : description
            }
        #file = open(filename)
        response = self._do_request(request)
        # if we get here, everything went ok.

Now it actually gets through to the gallery2 server but it's giving me a "Filename not specified" error. Right now my filename is set to '/usr/home/USERNAME_EDITED/images/wood_grain.png'.

Any pointers for getting this to work?

Thanks,
barnacle

I found a python script that actually works, not sure why I didn't see the link to it earlier...

http://codex.gallery2.org/Other_Clients#GUP

Now, if there was a way to get it to support symlinks it would be perfect.

Does anyone know if the remote protocol has the ability to support symlinks?