Re: Implement RSS feeds in WebObjects application

Thanks to you all for responding to my emails on this over the last few
days. I finally managed to implement RSS 2.0 feeds in my WebObjects
application.

I basically created a direct action that returns a WOComponent. The  html
file of this component ontains just one WOString. I then bound the value of
this WOString to a method in the component's Java file that returns an XML
string as below:


    public String displayXmlString() {
        StringBuffer xmlString = new StringBuffer();

        xmlString.append("<?xml version=\"1.0\" ?>\n");
        xmlString.append("<rss version=\"2.0\">\n");
        xmlString.append("<channel>\n");

        xmlString.append("<title>Executive Status Report</title>\n");
        xmlString.append("<link>http://foo.bar.com/</link>\n");
        xmlString.append("<description>This web page provides Executive
Status Report as RSS feeds.</description>\n");

        xmlString.append("<item>\n");
        xmlString.append("<title>" + projectCodeName() + "</title>\n");
        xmlString.append("<description>" + projectStatus() +
"</description>\n");
        xmlString.append("<author>" + authorName() + "</author>\n");
        xmlString.append("</item>\n");

        xmlString.append("</channel>\n");
        xmlString.append("</rss>\n");

        return xmlString.toString();
    }

There's probably other ways of doing it as well, but the above works fine
for my application. And when I run the app  and access the direct action in
my browser (Safari), I see the RSS feed displayed in it. Took me a while to
figure this out, but I'm glad it worked! Thanks a bunch for all your
suggestions.

- Ashok



On 1/11/06, Ashok Vemuri <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a direct action in my application that returns a WOComponent with
> some content in it (project status information, for example). I need to
> provide this as an RSS feed to the users. Does anyone have some ideas on how
> to implement this?
>
> Regards,
> Ashok
>
>
>

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