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Chris A. Mattmann commented on NUTCH-444:
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Hi Nick,
Thanks for your insightful comments on this issue. I think I can summarize the
discussions on this issue to the following:
1. Folks are seeing limitations in the version of commons-feedparser (0.6) used
by parse-rss in the Nutch trunk
2. There are alternatives to feedparser in the form of ROME, informa, abdera,
etc.
3. There is a newer, maintained version of Kevin Burton's feed parser that
alleviates some of the limitations of feedparser (0.6) used in the Nutch trunk
4. We shouldn't be developing our own feedparsing solution
Did I miss anything? If not, then I'm thinking the following. Perhaps we
should write a transparency layer into the parse-rss plugin to select between
different RSS parsing backends, such as ROME, or feedparser. It probably
wouldn't be too hard to write a simple transparency interface, at least to
begin with. The i/f would provide methods to retrieve channels, and items, and
would support arbitrary metadata retrieval from the underlying structures.
Would this meet everyone's needs? If not, then I have an alternate suggestion.
Perhaps, at the very least, we should upgrade the version of commons-feedparser
in parse-rss to the latest version from Kevin Burton? I'd also be willing to
hear other suggestions...
Cheers,
Chris
> Possibly use a different library to parse RSS feed for improved performance
> and compatibility
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>
> Key: NUTCH-444
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NUTCH-444
> Project: Nutch
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: fetcher
> Affects Versions: 0.9.0
> Reporter: Renaud Richardet
> Assigned To: Chris A. Mattmann
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 0.9.0
>
> Attachments: parse-feed-v2.tar.bz2, parse-feed.tar.bz2
>
>
> As discussed by Nutch Newbie, Gal, and Chris on NUTCH-443, the current
> library (feedparser) has the following issues:
> - OutOfMemory when parsing > 100k feeds, since it has to convert the feed to
> jdom first
> - no support for Atom 1.0
> - there has been no development in the last year
> Alternatives are:
> - Rome
> - Informa
> - custom implementation based on Stax
> - ??
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