Re: [syndication] Syndication Subscription

[Aaron Swartz <aswartz@swartzfam.com>]

Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> wrote:

> I see it as an unsigned int, or other handle of some sort. There should be
> room in the API for discovery of a master URL associated with it, but it's
> primarily a way to say "Choose this entry from this list".

That was my original thinking. It's a trade-off between the simplicity of a
number versus the added information you get from a URL. it would probably be
best for it to be an unsigned integer with the URL information specified
somewhere else.

> So I'd modify Aaron's API by changing the Subscriber functions to:
> 
> newStory(subscriptionID, storyURL);
> changedStory(subscriptionID, storyURL);

Sounds good. This makes a lot of sense.

> And perhaps I'd put some sort of list of master types that we can pass
> back with the "getPublications" array that lets us tell if a given
> publication is RSS, ICE, HTML, or whatever. Aaron, you wanna be the keeper
> of the master list?

I'd be honored to. :-) Send them to me by email (aaron@theinfo.org) for
right now, if there's enough interest, I'll set up a web-based system to
take care of it.

> My wrists need a break, but I'll see about slapping a preliminary
> implementation of the publisher side of this together, and then maybe see
> what I can do about some sort of aggregating client later.

I'm doing some work on a client, I'd be happy to set up a simple system that
takes care of it. 

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