Re: Atom and prev links
Ben Niven-Jenkins <[email protected]> Fri, 28 Jun 2013 18:10:57 +0100
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On 28 Jun 2013, at 11:16, Greg Young <[email protected]> wrote: > We have a mature atom implementation for distribution of event streams > and as always the devil is in the details... > > The issue revolves around prev links. At some point on an atom feed > you will hit the current item, prev will point to the next item that > does not yet exist. Why not use feed paging and use prev-archive to indicate the previous page and keep your "main" feed as the current page. Client just polls the current page and if it needs to go further back in time it follows prev-archive links until it finds what it wants. You then avoid the problem of links to things that don't exist or updating already archived pages. Ben