relevant ticket at http://trac.openplans.org/melkjug/ticket/322
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Joshua Bronson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 1:58 PM Subject: Re: feed lookup service only returns 1 result? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Okay, will do. Thanks again for the quick and thorough followup. Josh On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Ben Lisbakken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Josh -- > Don't worry about the suggestion vs. defect. Only the issue tracker admins > can change that (not by choice). > > Your expectations of feedFind and feedLookup are correct. We are pulling > the feedLookup results from another service at Google, which is the service > responsible for indexing the feeds. It only pulls one feed per site, and > uses the first: > <link rel="alternate"> > As the single feed to associate with a site. > > While I agree that this isn't a perfect model, it's probably not likely to > change at this point. So I'd encourage you to rely on finely tuned findFeed > requests to grab more than one feed associated with a site. > > Sorry for the inconvenience. > > -Ben > > On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Joshua Bronson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> Hey Ben, >> >> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 7:30 PM, Ben Lisbakken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: >> >>> Hey Josh -- >>> So I updated the ticket >>> >> >> Thanks. >> >> >>> but it looks more like it would be a 'suggestion' than a 'defect'. >>> >> >> Agreed. When I created the ticket using >> http://code.google.com/p/google-ajax-apis/issues/entry, there didn't seem >> to be a way for me to specify 'suggestion' rather than 'defect'. Did I miss >> something? >> >> >>> The lookup isn't supposed to return more than 1 item, but the feed find >>> is. So how about trying a query such as this: >>> >>> http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/feed/find?v=1.0&q=site:http://ianbicking.org >>> >>> With a bit of modification in the query, maybe it will serve you better? >>> >>> Let me know if it works. If it does then I will mark the ticket as a >>> suggestion and 'will not fix' because I think that the feed find would be >>> the correct tool for the job. >>> >> >> Thanks for the suggestion. It's definitely a nice workaround, and it's >> possible I'll be able to use this instead, though I have to think about it >> some more. But for the sake of argument if nothing else, feed find and feed >> lookup do serve two distinct purposes: find takes some search terms and >> returns related feeds, whereas (as I understand it) lookup expects the url >> of an html document and returns (currently only the first of possibly many) >> feeds referenced in it. For this particular use case, I would want to plug >> in "http://ianbicking.org";, and get back all two feeds referenced via >> <link rel="alternate"...> inside http://ianbicking.org/index.html, and no >> others. This seems more like the intended purpose of lookup rather than >> find, and I'm guessing the only reason lookup caps results at one is to >> be conservative. Maybe it could instead return the first n, up to a certain >> maximum that Google allows. If it's too much of a hassle to implement >> though, I can continue to roll my own for this particular service. >> >> Thanks again for the helpful reply. >> >> Josh >> >> >> Regards, >>> Ben >>> >>> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Joshua Bronson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> This issue was marked fixed on 10/15 but actually isn't. I said as >>>> much in a comment but there has been no further activity. Can someone >>>> with edit-issue privileges please update the ticket? >>>> http://code.google.com/p/google-ajax-apis/issues/detail?id=111 >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Josh >>>> >>>> On Sep 16, 4:57 pm, Joshua Bronson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> > http://code.google.com/p/google-ajax-apis/issues/detail?id=111 >>>> > >>>> > In case anyone else is interested in starring. >>>> > >>>> > On Sep 11, 12:57 pm, "jgeerdes [AJAX APIs \"Guru\"]" >>>> > >>>> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> > > If this is a feature suggestion, you'll want to post it to the issue >>>> > > tracker. >>>> > >>>> > > >>>> http://code.google.com/p/google-ajax-apis/issues/list?can=2&q=&sort=-. >>>> .. >>>> > >>>> > > Jeremy R. Geerdes >>>> > > Effective website design & development >>>> > > Des Moines, IA >>>> > >>>> > > For more information or a project quote: >>>> http://jgeerdes.home.mchsi.com >>>> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> > >>>> > > If you're in the Des Moines, IA, area, check out Debra Heights >>>> > > Wesleyan Church! >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ > This message is part of the topic "feed lookup service only returns 1 > result?" in the Google Group "Google AJAX APIs" for which you requested > email updates. > To stop receiving email updates for this topic, please visit the topic > at > http://groups.google.com/group/Google-AJAX-Search-API/t/50e18134be97c101 > -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- > >
