Excellent - I've just uploaded the patch if anyone wants to have a look. Also described the way I attacked Maven, but can't be sure it's the best advice.
Dan -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 April 2008 23:36 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Support for ContentType.FEED in makeRequest You could stick a patch on the JIRA issue ( https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SHINDIG-60) and we could take a look. On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Dan Lester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My version of Java Shindig can now support the FEED Content Type in > makeRequest - i.e. returns fully parsed RSS feeds as JSON objects. > > I've used the eddie library to parse rss on the Java side: > http://www.davidpashley.com/projects/eddie.html > > My implementation is fairly basic, and I'm not sure I have the Maven, > JUnit, Java, and Legal (check licenses) skills to submit this in a way > that would not make you full-time coders cry. > > But if anyone wants the code I've written, please feel free to ask for > it - either to integrate into your own Shindig implementation, or for > the main code base. > > It just involves an addition to ProxyHandler.java and > features/core.io/io.js. > > Thanks, > > Dan > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dan Lester [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 31 March 2008 19:04 > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Support for ContentType.FEED in makeRequest > > > > Thanks for the response - shame it can't just be taken from iGoogle! > > I had thought the Shindig solution would also be server-side, but for > a temporary solution you raise a good point that a client-side library > could do the trick, although feed parsers I've used in PHP tend to be > large, so it would be a waste to download even when not used. > > Perhaps I'll see if I can work out a quick fix at some stage, but > unfortunately can't even look at it for a while, so don't let my > comments here prevent anyone else from also trying to build a > solution... > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kevin Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 28 March 2008 18:26 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Support for ContentType.FEED in makeRequest > > > 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 > > > -- ~Kevin
