What about easily turning any lift app into a url shortener service?
Wouldn't be too hard...
Granted, some services (bit.ly) add statistics, visualization, conversation
tracking, etc. which aren't just url shortening.
--j
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Tim Perrett <timo...@getintheloop.eu>wrote:
>
> Guys,
>
> I've been contemplating doing this for a while and am now finding
> myself with a bunch of free time tomorrow and a need to write some
> code.
>
> So, I want to make a widget that shortens URL's in an extendable
> way... Im thinking of having something like:
>
> trait URLReductionProvider { ... }
>
> object TinyURL extends URLReductionProvider
> object IsGd extends URLReductionProvider
> object BitLy extends URLReductionProvider
>
> You get the general idea...
>
> So, im thinking of implementing the actual URL fetching stuff as a
> partial function so that users could do:
>
> def reductionResult = {
> case Full(result) => // result is the URL, insert into database etc
> case _ => // something went wrong
> }
>
> My question is however, if i make this actor based, could someone
> implement it so rather than writing there URL to database in a
> separate thread to the main one, would it be possible for them to say,
> use a JsCmd and return that to update the browser? Im guessing not
> unless it was a CometActor right.
>
> This then got me thinking, do you guys thing this is worth doing actor
> based, or is it just ok to make a blocking call to the provider?
> (tinyurl or is.gd etc)
>
> Cheers, Tim
> >
>
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