I'm working on a JsonRpc servlet that requires this functionality. If you can wait until this weekend, you'll find that I've already got everything that you probably need. See also https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SHINDIG-51 and https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SHINDIG-25.
On Feb 7, 2008 8:39 AM, Dan Lester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Let's say I have a directory of gadgets that users might want to run on > my site, entered only by URL. I want to display more information about > each gadget to the user so they can make a choice about which gadgets > they might want to run - so, I would want to extract information from > the XML such as author name, thumbnail, description. > > So far, I have ripped out bits of code from GadgetRenderingServlet.java, > doing most of the same things as the /ifr servlet except for actually > rendering the gadget. This seems to work, and even uses the same cache I > think. But I just thought there must be a better way? If not, is it > worth adding a class to do this? > > I've decided to build the whole site in Java so that I can do things > like this. I'm not sure what I'd do if I was using another language for > the rest of my site. > > Thanks for any guidance! > > Dan > >
