On Thursday 23 July 2009, Patrick Aljord wrote: > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 2:28 AM, Aaron J. Seigo<ase...@kde.org> wrote: > > On Thursday 23 July 2009, Patrick Aljord wrote: > >> Thanks for your answer. I'm trying to fetch an xml file from a website > >> that has an xml api and display the results in my plasmoid. > > > > will you be parsing the xml before displaying it in some custom manner? > > (just wondering what all would be needed to be added to make this easy to > > accomplish) > > Yes I would be parsing the xml before displaying, that would be useful > to show a feed to though for that I could use a plasma engine I guess. > It would be good to be able to download and parse xml and json (well > json is easy with JS). And even better, also being able to POST http > request. That way we'd be able to interact with most web api (eg > twitter, wikipedia, feeds etc).
yes, i almost wonder if we shouldn't have some generic web api interaction bits in there, either via an engine or a Plasma::Service.... a Service plugin is probably the way to go, i think, and would be pretty easy to write, indeed. > > ruby and python are better in that regard, but > > otherwise (given today's runtime envs for each) are capable of far too > > many > > I think right now I could write a ruby script that execute > "File.rm_f('~')", upload it on kde-apps and people would be able to > install that directly from the desktop, no? yes. not great, i know. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Software
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