BobSammers wrote: 
> So it's working again, which is very good news!
It is just a short reprieve.

> When I spoke about the JSON feeds a few posts back, it looked like
> everything had been switched off, those included. Now it looks like the
> May 2017 date might actually be accurate, hopefully the JSON
> continuation will also pan out for the feeds that Extra relies on. Am I
> right in thinking that an "ExtraJSONParser.pm" and a change to the URL
> extensions in "default.opml" is what is needed to take advantage of this
> possibility (and presumably a tweak somewhere to call the JSON parser
> rather than the XML one)? I'm assuming(!) that a clone of
> "ExtraXMLParser.pm" but with the XML parser replaced with a suitably
> wired JSON one from CPAN will be relatively straightforward.
If only.

If you look at the default.opml file - you'll see that each feed has its
own parser - each of the 5 parsers would need to be updated.  JSON also
has some quirks compared to XML so it is never just a quick change of
library call from "XMLin" to "from_json" as there are different ways of
handling data structures (arrays vs list), missing items and defaults
values.

If JSON feeds are only going to work for a short time - is it worth the
effort ?  It would be better to spend time on a more durable solution.


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