Re: [PyCS-devel] Fwd: [radio-dev] RFC: comment notification for Radio via email

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Yeah, and at the moment it has a serious security problem in that there are
no passwords anywhere, so I wouldn't suggest cloning this particular
interface any time soon!

I've posted a response to Jake's RPC, so let's see what happens there.

For PyCS it would be easier & safer to get the user to tell the server in
its ping() call, or add a new method to xmlStorageSystem (or
radioCommunityServer) that sets the 'flNotifyNewComments' flag...

Cheers,
Phil :)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Georg Bauer" <gb...@mu...>
To: "PyCS List" <pyc...@li...>
Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2003 8:13 AM
Subject: [PyCS-devel] Fwd: [radio-dev] RFC: comment notification for Radio
via email

> Hi!
>
> Just read this on the radio-dev list. I think we don't need it, as we
allways
> know who to send comment notifications to. But we don't have ways to set
> preferences per user currently. So maybe we should think about this a bit
how to
> give people the same functionality. Comments? Ideas?
>
> bye, Georg
>
> ====== Forwarded Message ======
> Date: 29.08.2003 12:52 Uhr
> Received: 29.08.2003 21:52 Uhr +0200
> From: ja...@us... (Jake Savin)
> To: man...@ya..., rad...@ya...
>
> In conjunction with a similar feature for Manila, we're working on a
> feature for notifying Radio users via email when new comments are
> posted to their sites.
>
> We'd like to give developers an opportunity to comment on the
> implementation before releasing the feature.
>
> This message is cross-posted to manila-dev because Manila hosts the
> comments for Radio users, and some of the implementation of this
> feature will be in Manila.
>
>
> *** Preferences in Radio
>
> There's only one new preference for this feature -- a checkbox for
> whether to send comment notification via email. On the Prefs -> Weblog
> -> Comments page:
>
> [x] Check this box to receive notification via email when new comments
> are posted.
>
> The default is checked. The value of the pref is stored at
> weblogData.prefs.flCommentNotificationEnabled.
>
> Comments are sent to the email address specified on the Prefs -> Basic
> Preferences -> User Identity page, which is stored at
> weblogData.prefs.authorMailAddress.
>
>
> *** Connecting to the comments site
>
> Any Manila site can host comments for a Radio weblog, and Manila
> currently has no direct way of knowing where to send the emails, or
> whether to send them at all. Radio needs a way to send this information
> to the Manila site that hosts its comments.
>
> The most flexible way to do this is for Radio to make an XML-RPC call
> to the Manila site, but first Radio needs enough information about the
> site to make the RPC call. Radio does this by making a request to the
> comments page, whose URL is the one bit of data that Radio has about
> the comments site. The request has an argument in the URL c=getRpcInfo,
> which means "send me your XML-RPC information". Here's an example
> request:
>
> GET /comments?c=getRpcInfo HTTP/1.0
> Host: radiocomments.userland.com
>
> The body of the response is XML. It contains information needed to call
> the Manila site using XML-RPC. Here's an example response:
>
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Connection: close
> Content-Length: 139
> Content-Type: text/xml
>
> <rpcInfo>
>     <server>radiocomments.userland.com</server>
>     <port>80</port>
>     <path>/RPC2</path>
>     <methodName>manila.radioHosting.setPrefs</methodName>
>     <siteName>radioComments</siteName>
>     </rpcInfo>
>
> This request is made by radio.thread.agents.pingCloud, and the data is
> stored in a table at weblogData.prefs.commentServer. (The request is
> made only once.)
>
> Once Radio has the XML-RPC information, it makes the following XML-RPC
> call to the Manila site, also from radio.thread.agents.pingCloud, to
> set preferences for comment notification:
>
> manila.radioHosting.setPrefs (siteName, usernum, data) -- returns true
>
> siteName is the canonical name of the Manila site that hosts comments
> for the Radio weblog, as returned in XML in the above request.
>
> usernum is the Radio user's usernum, which corresponds to the "u"
> argument in the comment pop-up window URLs.
>
> data is a struct which contains the following sub-elements:
>
> flNotifyNewComments -- a boolean, true if the user wants comment
> notification via email (corresponding to the new preference described
> above)
>
> sendNotificationTo -- a string, the email address notification will be
> sent to
>
> We're using a struct for the data parameter in case more information
> needs to be sent to Manila using the setPrefs call in the future.
>
>
> *** Manila implementation
>
> Manila stores metadata about comments in the radioHosting sub-table of
> the site's #newsSite table.
>
> A new sub-table of the radioHosting table named userPrefs will store
> preferences for the Radio users whose comments the Manila site is
> hosting. This sub-table is populated by calls from Radio to
> manila.radioHosting.setPrefs, and contains two sub-items,
> flNotifyNewComments and sendNotificationTo.
>
> When a new comment is posted to a Radio site, Manila checks to see if
> the corresponding usernum has preferences defined in the
> ["#newsSite"].radioHosting.userPrefs sub-table. If defined, and if the
> value of flNotifyNewComments is true, then Manila will send email
> notification of the new comment to the email address defined by
> sendNotificationTo.
>
>
> *** Comments and Questions
>
> If you have comments or questions, please post them as a response to
> this message.
>
> Thanks,
> -Jake
>
>
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