| Category: | Web stuff |
| Author/Contact Info | rjray |
| Description: | The use Perl; site is starting to provide SOAP interface support to the journal system there. Much of the interface is still alpha, and I'm trying to help out pudge by testing what he has, and offering suggestions here and there as I run into things. This is a simple demonstration/proof-of-concept script that uses SOAP::Lite and XML::RSS to turn the last 15 journal entries from a given user into a RSS 1.0 syndication channel. Caveats: There is not yet an interface for turning a nickname into a user-ID, so you have to provide the user ID as the first (and only required) parameter to the script. You may provide the nickname as the second parameter. The titles and such are very simple, as this goes for minimal network traffice over feature-bloat. But it's mostly for illustrative purposes. As the interface fleshes out and becomes more stable, I expect to have a more functional version of this. Oh, and it writes to STDOUT, making it suitable as a filter to other XML/RSS processing apps. |
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use SOAP::Lite;
use XML::RSS;
my $user = shift ||
die "Usage: $0 userID [ usernick ]\n\nStopped";
my $nick = shift || "#$user";
my $host = 'use.perl.org';
my $uri = "http://$host/Slash/Journal/SOAP";
my $proxy = "http://$host/journal.pl";
my $journal = SOAP::Lite->uri($uri)->proxy($proxy);
my $results = $journal->get_entries($user, 15)->result;
my $rss = XML::RSS->new(version => '1.0');
$rss->channel(title => "use.perl.org journal of $nick",
'link' => $proxy,
description => "The use.perl.org journal of $nick");
$rss->add_item(title => $_->{subject}, 'link' => $_->{url})
for (@$results);
print STDOUT $rss->as_string;
__END__
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