Adrian,
Is there a reason why you did not create a Jira issue and attach a patch ?
Thanks
Jacques
From: "Adrian Crum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I created a basic service to retrieve external web pages and I also created a sample scraper - a form extraction service. It all
seems to work well.
I implemented these as services so they can be used inside screen widget
<actions> elements and in minilang.
I want to wait a little while before committing so I can get additional
feedback from the community.
The sendExternalRequest service takes the following arguments:
extRequestUrl - the external URL to invoke
extRequestType - get, post, or empty (for REST type URLs)
extRequestParams - request parameters Map
It returns extResponse - the web page as a String.
The getFormParametersFromExtResponse service takes the following arguments:
extResponse - The response String
formId - The id attribute to search for
formName - The form name to search for
It returns:
extResponse - The original response String
formAction - The form's action attribute
formMethod - The form's method attribute
formFields - The form's input fields Map
The idea being you could modify the contents of the formFields Map and then use the returned values in another call to
sendExternalRequest.
I picture the Mashup services working like a chain - you invoke the initial request, then take the response and pass it through
various scrapers and/or XML element extractors.
Comments are welcome.
-Adrian
--- On Thu, 7/10/08, Peter Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Peter Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Discussion: Mashups
To: dev@ofbiz.apache.org
Date: Thursday, July 10, 2008, 1:23 AM
Adrian,
Looking forward to have progress on it.
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Jacques Le Roux <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: "Adrian Crum"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>> Here's a good tutorial -
>>
>>
http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/J2EE/mashup_1/
>>
>
> Interesting, thanks
> Jacques
>
>
> -Adrian
>>
>> Jacques Le Roux wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry Adrian,
>>>
>>> What would be a "mashup engine" or
"mashup services" ? Actually what is a
>>> mashup capability ?
>>>
>>> Jacques
>>>
>>> From: "Adrian Crum"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>
>>>> I need to add mashup capability to my
local OFBiz copy. My immediate
>>>> need is a web page scraper that will
gather copy counts from our copiers and
>>>> store them as meter readings.
>>>>
>>>> I would like to implement this in a
generic way that might be fed back
>>>> into the project. I don't want to
reinvent the wheel, however. So, I'm
>>>> opening up the topic for discussion.
>>>>
>>>> Is there any interest in having something
like a "mashup engine" or
>>>> "mashup services" in the
framework? If yes, what are some strategies we can
>>>> use? Are there any open source libraries
we can leverage in an
>>>> implementation?
>>>>
>>>> -Adrian
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
--
Peter Ford
USA
