Re: [Informa-developer] Blogger feeds and alternate links in Atom

[adewale o. <ad...@gm...>]

Jean-Guy,
I finally got around to testing it and I can confirm that the
28Jun2004 branch resolves this problem.


On Mon, 2 Aug 2004 12:54:28 +0400 (RET), avelin
<jea...@un...> wrote:
> Hi Adewale,
> 
> thanks for your  patch. In branch-28Jun2004, multiple
> links for feed and entries are supported for atom parsing.
> You will find unit tests for links.
> 
> Please, let me known if it's work for you.
> 
> Jean-Guy
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, adewale oshineye wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > The Atom spec permits an entry to have multiple links with the one
> > that should be used as the permalink being the one with the
> > rel="alternate" attribute.
> >
> > Anyway I have provided a patch for the AtomParser to support this.
> > It's basically a cut and paste of the code that handles links at the
> > Feed level. The patch is attached and the code is below since I
> > haven't quite got the hang of creating minimal patches yet.
> >
> >
> > //deal with multiple links
> > List entryLinks = item.getChildren("link", defNS);
> > Iterator iter = entryLinks.iterator();
> > while (iter.hasNext()) {
> >   Element linkElement = (Element) iter.next();
> >   // use first 'alternate' link
> >   String rel = linkElement.getAttributeValue("rel");
> >   String href = linkElement.getAttributeValue("href");
> >   if (rel != null && href != null && rel.equals("alternate")) {
> >       strLink = href.trim();
> >       break;
> >   }
> > }
> >
> > The testcase is:
> >       public void testRetrievesRelLinkFromBloggerFeeds() throws Exception {
> >               File inpFile = new File(getDataDir(), "uncommentedBytes.xml");
> >               ChannelIF channel = FeedParser.parse(new ChannelBuilder(), inpFile);
> >
> >               // test link for first item
> >               java.util.Iterator itemsColl = channel.getItems().iterator();
> >               Item item = (Item) itemsColl.next();
> >               assertEquals("http://uncommentedbytes.blogspot.com/2004/07/yahoo-mail-is-making-me-want-gmail.html".trim(),item.getLink().toExternalForm());
> >       }
> >
> > The feed I used in the test is:
> > http://uncommentedbytes.blogspot.com/atom.xml but any of the blogger
> > feeds will exhibit the same problems.
> >
> > --Ade
> >
>