Hey Jorge,
Im not sure I 100% follow what your saying - are you proposing
creating a widget that actually has a shortening algorithm? IMO, isnt
it better to not re-invent the wheel and use an existing service?
(take advantage of their short domain names etc)
What are your thoughts on the blocking vs non-blocking thing?
Cheers, Tim
On Apr 2, 9:48 pm, Jorge Ortiz <jorge.or...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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