[Webware-discuss] How-to include static HTML + TaskKit Q.

[deelan <de...@in...>]

hi there,

i'm writing a simple blog system with python to learn the language and 
the webware framework. i've figured out most of the basic things, and
now i'm moving to more advanced stuff.

i was wondering what is the best way to include static contents in a 
webware servlet. consider this situation: tipically a blog sidebar 
contains a list of things that do not need to get updated frequently 
(blog rolls wih a "last updated" date, a calendar, recent photos--just 
to name a few).

i thought to update this things on a, say, daily basis via taskkit.
a tipical blog roll (example here: http://simon.incutio.com/)
generation task  would be:

* read a db table and fetch a service like weblogs.com with a list
of blogs of interest
* parse weblogs.com output and build an HTML <ul> list with blog title 
and "last updated" value
* write HTML snippet to disk

so, at every page request webware just include such static
HTML list  in the servlet output instead to compute a possibly
lengthly operation.

i've seen that Page has an includeURL() method, where URL is the URL
for another servlet, not a file. correct? of course i could
add something like to my WeblogPage object:

def includeFile(self, fname)
   included = file(fname, 'r')
   s = included.read()
   return s

to include an arbitrary file, but i would like to known how
you would solve this problem.

thanks in advance.

later,
deelan

PS: from the taskkit docs it's not clear to me how
to specify frequency for a task (say twice a day), once
a week and so on.