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[PyCS-devel] New feature in CVS: comment monitor alike behaviour

[Georg B. <gb...@mu...>]

Hi!

I just checked in a change to comments.py and the related comments/*.py 
files so that comments.py now can return a full feed for all comments 
for a usernumber. The URL format is as follows:

http://muensterland.org/system/comments.py?u=0000001&format=rss&full=1

This returns an rss feed for this weblog with all comments attached. 
Comments are ordered by date, newest first. I did this because this way 
we can return more data in the comment - this comment has more flesh in 
the title (the author name, the date when it was posted) and carries the 
actual comment in the body. I think there should be a way to limit posts 
to "last X days" or "newest X comments", but since I don't have much 
comments on my site, I didn't implement it now. Might ponder a bit over 
that - maybe a "new comments since my last run with new comments" and a 
user preference would be an alternative, I can't say at the moment. 
Since this feed would be used to monitor your comments to be able to 
weed out bad stuff, I think it should guarantee as best as it could that 
you don't miss on comments (just because you were flooded by comments 
and so it broke the limit or just because you didn't check for some 
weeks and so miss some old comments).

To enable this I implemented a commentfeed formatter rssfull.py (new 
module in comments/) and made some small changes to the system. Since my 
MacReporterForge beta expired again, I can't check it with that tool, 
but the feed looks ok, so I think it's useable. I hope I didn't break 
anything with normal posting-related comment feeds.

bye, Georg

Re: [PyCS-devel] New feature in CVS: comment monitor alike behaviour

[Phillip P. <ph...@my...>]

Great!

I've updated pycs.net to use the latest code.  Looks good.

Rogers Cadenhead's comment feed is a bit long; it might be useful for
testing (Rogers - if you're reading this, keep using the comment monitor for
the moment - it makes much smaller RSS!).  It also appears broken in
Internet Explorer; there's something dodgy in the XML somewhere ...

http://www.pycs.net/system/comments.py?u=0000001&format=rss&full=1

Cheers,
Phil :)

Re: [PyCS-devel] New feature in CVS: comment monitor alike behaviour

[Georg B. <gb...@mu...>]

Hi!

> testing (Rogers - if you're reading this, keep using the comment 
> monitor for
> the moment - it makes much smaller RSS!).  It also appears broken in

Yep, maybe an option to leave out the description? So it only transfers 
title and link? And I think the timelimit should be implemented, too. 
Maybe with a quite large timeframe, 14 days or something like that.

> Internet Explorer; there's something dodgy in the XML somewhere ...

Hmm. Looks like some char-problem again. I thought I can just use your 
comment feed stuff, as it uses CDATA[[]] to encapsulate body 
information, but it looks like that isn't enough to keep XML parsers 
happy. It's a chr(0xa0) in a comment. It will go away as soon as I put 
the iso-8859-1 header in there. That wasn't in the comments/rss.py - 
looks like it works after that addition (at least with my - 
umlaut-infested - feed).

Ok, the following changes are checked in:

- full=1 delivers now a feed with shortened description elements (only 
first 40 bytes)
- full=2 delivers now a feed with full description elements
- full=3 delivers the same as full=2, but delivers _all_ comments. the 
lower levels only deliver the last 14 days of comments

When you update your server, we can look how that works with Rogers 
feed. full=1 should be highly reduced, I think.

bye, Georg