Excellent - thanks for pointing me to those open issues. I guess your JsonRpc servlet will be wrapping some classes that I can access directly if I'm using Java. Prefer to use your 'official' code than something I've hacked together for my own purposes...
Anyway, I'll have a look at your submission when it's ready. Thanks, Dan -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 07 February 2008 17:23 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Getting Gadget Info without rendering gadget 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 > >
