Re: RSS for public queries ...

Hi,

from my side it looks like an enhancement is necessary here.... :)

Andrej, some days ago:
"Scarab looks unfinished."

cheers

hussayn schrieb:
> Hi;
>
> I got the request to enable RSS on public queries. So i tested it and found
> it broken.
> Now i debugged it and found that RSS feeds on queries seems to be either
> removed or 
> rewritten but not fully implemented... Maybe someone else has already looked
> on this 
> particular problem and can help fixing this quickly ?
>
> This is what i found so far and maybe that helps to get an answer to 
> "how to implement RSS for queries" ...:
>
>
> In the java sourcetree i found:
>
> feeds/IssueFeed.java   (used for RSS on single issues, that seems to work)
> feeds/QueryFeed.java  (implemented but nowhere used)
>
> Now when i look at the generated URL'S for RSS, i see:
>
> for single issues:
>
> /scarab/issues/
> curmodule/10001/
> tqk/0/
> template/RSSDataExport.vm/
> feedType/IssueFeed/
> issueId/ASPT13/
> type/rss_2.0
>
> and for queryLists:
>
> /scarab/issues/
> curmodule/10001/
> tqk/0/
> template/Index.vm/
> action/Search/
> go/10060/
> eventSubmit_doSelectquery/foo/
> output/feed/
> feedType/rss_2.0
>
> So for single issues the RSSDataExport is called, which in turn uses the
> IssueFeed class from above and that seems to work.
>
> For queryLists a standard search action (Search.java) is called which makes
> sense to me. 
> But i expect, that within the search action we would see somewhere a call to
> QueryFeed.java or an equivalent call. But the only thing that happens in
> Search() is: Due to the fact that we passed in "output=feed"  the target is
> set to RSSIssueList.vm (see Search.getIssueListTarget() ) and this velocity
> macro does not exist, so we get a TemplateNotFoundException...
>
> For me that looks broken. Either the author never finished the
> implementation, or some necessary steps have been removed unintentionally.
> If i remember correctly, RSS used to work for Queries in previous
> releases... So what happened here ???? And why is there a QueryFeed class,
> which apparently is nowhere used, but looks like this is the RSS
> implementation for query lists ...
>
> Anyone has got an idea what's up here and can give me a hint (or two...) ?
>
> regards,
> Hussayn
>

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