Re: [curn-users] enhancement requests

[Mark Fletcher <dafletcha@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry, Brian. I completely missed the EditFeedURL parameter in the doc.
I'm sure I can use that to adjust my channel URL.

Regarding channel.url, that's the main url provided *by* the feed,
right? But what I'm looking for is the url *of* the feed itself. Can I
get this value from the FreeMarker data? Again, I'd like to be able to
offer an "XML" or "RSS" button on my feed page so readers can add the
feed to their own rss reader.

And one final question: what does ShowRSSVersion do? I've got it set to
true, but I don't see the version number showing up anywhere.

Thanks again,
Mark

--- Brian Clapper <bmc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 10/08/06 16:34, Mark Fletcher wrote:
> > Hi Brian,
> >
> > I'd like to request another enhancement for your next version. In
> the
> > same way you can override a channel title with TitleOverride, I'd
> like
> > it if I could override that channel's default URL with a parameter
> like
> > "URLOverride". I'm dealing with RSS feeds from Jira and its
> > channel.links all point to the main Jira page, rather than to the
> > actual report that they're based on.
> >
> > For that matter, I could use an "EditChannelURL" param instead of
> or in
> > addition to "URLOverride". Jira's channel urls differ from their
> styled
> > html view in only a few parameters. It would probably be easy to
> derive
> > the channel url by applying a regExp to the feed url. Then again,
> > looking at your FreeMarker data model, I don't see the feed url
> exposed
> > anywhere. So...
> 
> Mark,
> 
> Take a look at the EditItemURL and EditFeedURL configuration
> parameters
> in the User's Guide:
> 
>
http://www.clapper.org/software/java/curn/docs/users-guide/#Feed_EditFeedURL
> 
> I use those parameters to change the URLs served up by various
> places. For
> instance, consider this entry from my configuration file:
> 
> ----------
> [Feed_yahoo_top]
> # Yahoo News item URLs are of this form:
> #
> #
>
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2
> ...
> #
> # The following edit command strips off the first URL, leaving only
> the story
> # URL. The edit command corresponds to this Perl 5 construct:
> #
> #        s|^http://.*\*http://|http://\|
> #
> URL:            ${curn:feedCacheURLPrefix}/yahoo_top_stories.xml
> ForceEncoding:  ${curn:feedCacheEncoding}
> EditItemURL:    's|^http://.*\*http://|http://|'
> #
> # All Yahoo News RSS channels seem to use the same generic title.
> Substitute
> # a more useful one.
> #
> TitleOverride:          Yahoo! News Top Stories
> ----------
> 
> Notice the EditItemURL parameter.
> 
> Will that do what you want?
> 
> > That brings up one more request :-) If it's not already exposed,
> can
> > you provide FreeMarker access to a channel's rss feed url? In
> addition
> > to enabling regExp manipulation to derive a channel url, it would
> allow
> > me to add an "XML" button to each channel so that my readers could
> add
> > a feed to their own RSS readers.
> 
> It's there, but not documented. (That's not on purpose; I just
> neglected to
> document it.) There's a "url" element within each channel element:
> 
>    +-- channel ...................... table of contents entry for one
> channel
>          |
>          +-- title .................. [String] channel title
>          |
>          +-- totalItems ............. [int] total items in channel
>          |
>          +-- channelAnchor .......... [String] HTML anchor name for
> channel
>          |
>          +-- url .................... [String] Feed/channel URL
> 
> There's a "url" element available for each item, too.
> 
> If you look in my "HTML.ftl" FreeMarker template (it's in both the
> binary
> jar and the source tree), you'll see that I use both ${channel.url}
> and
> ${item.url}.
> 
> I've made a note to update the Freemarker-related docs.
> -- 
> -Brian
> 
> Brian Clapper, http://www.clapper.org/bmc/
> Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.
> 


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