Hi Dennis, in your case, I'd recommend working with Roller trunk, as
it's just much smaller and more pleasant to work with, and potential
patches and other problems are considerably more likely to get fixed
there. If you look at the many servlets defined in Roller's web.xml,
regardless of Roller version, maybe the code for UserDataServlet and
PlanetFeedServlet can give you an idea of the type of coding
(non-velocity) needed to return a desired response. Doing a code search
on "velocity" in Roller's servlets package (in trunk, the package is
org.apache.roller.weblogger.ui.rendering.servlets, perhaps the same on
the 5.0.x branch) can give you servlets more specific to what you're
trying to do.
Glen
On 03/26/2014 08:05 PM, Dennis Sosnoski wrote:
Thanks for the suggestions, Glen, but I am trying to keep the site
front page plain HTML (partially because I don't monitor all the time,
and if Roller crashes - not that it ever would, of course, but anyway
:-) - I'd prefer to have the front page stay up). If I just want to
create a URL where I can access the feed as the output from a Velocity
snippet, how could I add that to Roller? I see I can just add a JSP
directly in the root directory, but it's not clear to me how I can
attach that to a Velocity snippet inside Roller to give me back the
list of posts.
- Dennis
On 03/27/2014 11:50 AM, Glen Mazza wrote:
Oops, misunderstood your request. You can access the underlying
database directly, or rely on either the RSS or Atom feeds with a
mixture of CSS -- a google is showing there's several websites around
on mixing CSS & RSS/Atom. There are also Meta Weblog and Blogger APIs
meant for interfacing with desktop client blogging tools that you
might also be able to pull data out with -- look for the "EditURI"
link in the HTML header when viewing the HTML source of your blog.
Alternatively, make the front page of your site Roller by creating
another quasi-blog using the built-in "front page" theme that you can
modify to your heart's content-- by default, it looks similar to
this: http://www.jroller.com/) or activate the "Planet" feature for
your blog, I haven't used the latter though and it may have some
problems with it, I don't know. Twitter is another option -- if you
tweet your articles you can embed a Twitter gadget into your static
page.
HTH,
Glen
On 03/26/2014 05:00 PM, Dennis Sosnoski wrote:
Thanks for getting back to me, Glen. I'd already looked at that
post, though.
My situation is that the front page of my site is not Roller and (at
least currently) not even dynamic. I was hoping that Roller would
define an endpoint I could access to get back an HTML list of recent
post titles, so that I could just use that as the source for an
iframe. I'd prefer to get the list back in reasonable form for
presentation on the client using CSS (otherwise I suppose I could
just use the Atom feed). If there isn't any direct source for this
now, I suppose I could add a special page to my template to generate
what I want using the Velocity snippet, and use that special page as
the source for the iframe. Is that the best way to get what I want?
It's not clear offhand how I'd add such a special page to my Roller
configuration without stepping on anything, so if that is the best
way to do things I'd appreciate any pointers.
Regards,
- Dennis
On 03/26/2014 11:47 PM, Glen Mazza wrote:
Hi Dennis, sure, look at Item #8 here:
http://www.jroller.com/gmazza/entry/apache_roller_blogging for a
Velocity macro you can place into your Roller template:
http://www.jroller.com/gmazza/entry/apache_roller_blogging. What it
looks like you can see on the right-side of my blog.
Regards,
Glen
On 03/25/2014 11:31 PM, Dennis Sosnoski wrote:
Hi, Rollers :-)
I've set up a new Roller blog within my site, and I'd like to
embed a list of the recent post titles with links in the main page
(plain HTML, not Roller). Is there a simple way I can get this
info from Roller in a form where I can just embed it in the page?
I'm thinking an HTML iframe, or something of the sort.
Thanks,
- Dennis
