Kevin, The JsonRpc servlet is a great contribution - I've got it working from PHP.
However, is there any chance it could return all available details from the spec? That would include thumbnail_url, width, height, author_email, etc - every attribute on the ModulePrefs tag, I suppose. You mention that error handling is "kind of rough". I think any client can just cater for the idiosyncrasies for now, but one glaring issue is that any one gadget spec not found causes the whole call to break (returns 'Incomplete processing'). That rather ruins your hard work to allow multiple gadget specs to be fetched at once. SHINDIG-25 is marked as closed which is why I'm bringing it up rather than just waiting to see if you had anything more in store... Thanks, Dan -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 February 2008 01:58 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Getting Gadget Info without rendering gadget Yes, there will most likely just be a new method on GadgetServer (a new class would require replicating much of what it does already anyway). On Feb 7, 2008 5:32 PM, Dan Lester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Excellent - thanks for pointing me to those open issues. > > I guess your JsonRpc servlet will be wrapping some classes that I can > access directly if I'm using Java. Prefer to use your 'official' code > than something I've hacked together for my own purposes... > > Anyway, I'll have a look at your submission when it's ready. > > Thanks, > > Dan > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kevin Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 07 February 2008 17:23 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Getting Gadget Info without rendering gadget > > > I'm working on a JsonRpc servlet that requires this functionality. If > you can wait until this weekend, you'll find that I've already got > everything that you probably need. See also > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SHINDIG-51 and > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SHINDIG-25. > > On Feb 7, 2008 8:39 AM, Dan Lester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Let's say I have a directory of gadgets that users might want to run > > on my site, entered only by URL. I want to display more information > > about each gadget to the user so they can make a choice about which > > gadgets they might want to run - so, I would want to extract > > information from the XML such as author name, thumbnail, > > description. > > > > So far, I have ripped out bits of code from > > GadgetRenderingServlet.java, doing most of the same things as the > > /ifr > > > servlet except for actually rendering the gadget. This seems to > > work, and even uses the same cache I think. But I just thought there > > must be > > > a better way? If not, is it worth adding a class to do this? > > > > I've decided to build the whole site in Java so that I can do things > > like this. I'm not sure what I'd do if I was using another language > > for the rest of my site. > > > > Thanks for any guidance! > > > > Dan > > > > > >
