On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 5:39 AM, Dan Lester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I've found JIRA 60 which says "Shindig does not properly support the > FEED content type as defined by the gadgets spec for > gadgets.io.MakeRequest" and it is currently unassigned. > > I'm coming across a number of gadgets that are trying to use this > feature - it's certainly a lot easier than parsing an XML feed; in > gmodules there is server-side code to break up the actual RSS fields > into a JSON structure. > > Anyway, it occurred to me that this code must already exist somewhere > within Google... Would it be possible to at least commit (or post > elsewhere) the basic code to do that, even if it is not yet fully > integrated into Shindig? There are many RSS & Atom parsers out there -- we've been sort of punting on this until we get Abdera integration (which will come in the next few weeks with the RESTful API project). Are you looking for a solution in javascript, or a server side solution? Currently igoogle (gmodules.com) uses a server side solution for parsing feeds, and I can definitively say that it's not something that can be contributed to Shindig due to fundamental architectural differences, having worked on igoogle myself. I think we'd definitely welcome someone contributing a solution, even if it's only a temporary one. > > I can't promise to be able to take the steps required to integrate it > with Shindig, but some other general member of the public (or me) might > be able to help from there, if the 'offical' coders aren't able to > address it. Certainly, it does not make sense to start from scratch, > assuming Google are still able to be generous with their existing code. > > Thanks, > > Dan > > -- ~Kevin
