Hey Bob,

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Bob Wyman <[email protected]> wrote:

> Julien Genestoux <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Indeed, the virtual feed approach is definetely our prefered
> > option and the one we took for our track feeds.
>
> In your implementation, if your hub is processing a multi-entry feed and a
> filter I specify matches only one of the potentially many updated entries in
> the feed, what will you deliver to my call-back URL? Will you deliver the
> entire feed or just the single entry that matched the filter?
>

No, just the matching entry.


>
> If an update to a single source feed matches many filters, it would seem
> that you would need to deliver a fresh copy of the matched data for each of
> the filters that matched since each filter defines a distinct virtual feed.
> Is that correct?
>

yes, you would get a notification for each of the matched entry.

The virtual feed approach means that basically if a subscriber was
rebuilding the feed with the entry we'd sent him, each of the entries would
belong to the url's 'logic'.
Thanks,




>
> bob wyman
>
> On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Julien Genestoux <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Indeed, the virtual feed approach is definetely our prefered option and
>> the one we took for our track feeds. This way, they do not interfere in any
>> way with the core protocol.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Alexis Richardson <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> Monica
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Monica Keller <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>> > for hubs to provide
>>> > "Virtual" Topic Urls. One example of this would be a firehose url with
>>> > parameters for filtering. Also outside the scope of the spec would be
>>> > for hubs to promote their virtual topic urls like Julien just did.
>>> >
>>> > This will be helpful as subscribers don't have to subscribe to raw
>>> > topic urls one by one and can use the virtual or aggregated topic urls
>>> > from the Service Provider
>>>
>>> I think "virtual topics" are a very good idea and a way to open the
>>> door to (federatable) subscriptions for filtered streams of many
>>> kinds.
>>>
>>> alexis
>>>
>>>
>>> > Thoughts ?
>>> >
>>> > On Jul 1, 10:13 am, Julien Genestoux <[email protected]>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >> Hey, I don't mean to interrupt... but maybe this is part of the
>>> conversation
>>> >> : Superfeedr announced its track feature today :
>>> http://blog.superfeedr.com/track/filter/xmpp/pubsubhubbub/track/
>>> >>
>>> >> You can subscribe to keywords accross all the feeds that we host (more
>>> than
>>> >> 800 hubs now) or the feeds we have for the default hub.
>>> >>
>>> >> We want to get more filtering done... but it's obviously a quite
>>> complex
>>> >> task with high frequency publishing!
>>> >>
>>> >> Cheers,
>>> >>
>>> >> julien
>>> >>
>>> >> On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 7:04 PM, John Panzer <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>> >> > A topic: URI scheme?
>>> >> > --
>>> >> > John Panzer / Google
>>> >> > [email protected] / abstractioneer.org <
>>> http://www.abstractioneer.org/> /
>>> >> > @jpanzer
>>> >>
>>> >> > On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 5:22 AM, Alexis Richardson <
>>> [email protected]>wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> >> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 10:30 PM, Danny Briere <
>>> [email protected]>
>>> >> >> wrote:
>>> >> >> > This is interesting, because I think we may be more concerned
>>> with the
>>> >> >> > "topic model" than the content filtering.  So we have some
>>> questions
>>> >> >> > here:
>>> >>
>>> >> >> > 1) What is the current thinking / discussion / issues about the
>>> topic
>>> >> >> > model?  I've searched the recent postings trying to find
>>> references
>>> >> >> > and more specifics....is there a URL I can look at?
>>> >>
>>> >> >> > 2) In the current spec, a topic is the same as a feed URL from
>>> the
>>> >> >> > publisher.  But could the hub aggregate and / or segregate
>>> content
>>> >> >> > from incoming feed data and create its own topics?
>>> >>
>>> >> >> For my part, I would see that as a natural extension.  How would
>>> such
>>> >> >> topics be created and managed?
>>> >>
>>> >> >> alexis
>>> >>
>>> >> >> > (For example, in item 2, our hub would aggregate press releases
>>> and
>>> >> >> > the segregate them based on industry / language / geography into
>>> >> >> > multiple topics that users can subscribe to).
>>> >>
>>> >> >> > 3) Separately, we're also interested in being able to filter by
>>> tagged
>>> >> >> > field values to create filtered feeds.
>>> >>
>>> >> >> > -Danny
>>> >>
>>> >> >> > On Jun 29, 7:44 pm, Brett Slatkin <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> >> >> >> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Alexis Richardson <
>>> >> >> [email protected]> wrote:
>>> >> >> >> > On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 12:31 AM, Brett Slatkin <
>>> [email protected]>
>>> >> >> wrote:
>>> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Alexis Richardson
>>> >> >> >> >> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> >> >> >> >>> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:09 PM, Bob Wyman <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>> >> >> >> >>>> Now that we've got substantial experience with topic-based
>>> >> >> PubSubHubbub,
>>> >>
>>> >> >> >> >>> With all due respect - I don't think we have enough yet.
>>>  The spec
>>> >> >> is
>>> >> >> >> >>> still unstable.
>>> >>
>>> >> >> >> >> Specific wording aside, Alexis, it's a fine time to be
>>> talking about
>>> >> >> >> >> these ideas, right?
>>> >>
>>> >> >> >> > I don't wish to diss Bob's push in this direction.  But I'd
>>> like to
>>> >> >> >> > see the topic model 'settle down' before looking at content.
>>>  I don't
>>> >> >> >> > believe we are there yet.
>>> >>
>>> >> >> >> Gotcha. That's fine. I think everyone wants things to move
>>> slowly.
>>> >> >> >> This is the first I've seen of Bob's ideas in this direction and
>>> I've
>>> >> >> >> got to let it marinate in my brain a bit. But I'd imagine some
>>> new
>>> >> >> >> concerns about the existing spec may fall out of it, which is
>>> probably
>>> >> >> >> a good thing, even if we all collectively decide that they
>>> should or
>>> >> >> >> should not be in scope.
>>> >>
>>> >> >> >> -Brett
>>>
>>
>>
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