GSoC: PMC: JavaScript backends progress

[Hayri Bakici]

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Alessandro Diaferia
<alediaferia at gmail.com>wrote:

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> 2010/6/28 Hayri Bakici <thehayro at gmail.com>
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> Hey guys!
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>> Here is a quick update about the Plasma Media Center backends in writing a
>> dataengine in JS.
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>> The DateEngine really runs (thanks to aaron :) )
>> For now, it can make a flickr.photo.search requests get the response and
>> parse the xml, and display it on the dataEngine.
>> I had to paste the xml to script lib into my dataengine, due to "include"
>> problems. I know that a JS plasmoid has a command
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>> plasmoid.include('libsomething.js');
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>> however it doesn't work with my dataengine (although i used
>> engine.include('libsomething.js'); )
>> If you are wondering why the dataengine data, such as "published date" or
>> "keywords" is empty, then it is because of flickr: there should be a
>> specific getPhotoInfo request when you want to get the information.
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>> the next thing is to write the "fetch addons" function (waiting for aaron
>> ;) ) in this DataEngine and extract my request-response-parseXml code into
>> an Addon.
>> btw. i remember that the addon should have some kind of a main function?
>> how should the addon give its information to the DateEngine?
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>> Another thing I was wondering about the MediaData API: since we merged the
>> "video" and "photo" API together, there are still attributes that are
>> disjunct. should i just drop them for now?
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> Which one of them?  We can eventually use an associative array though.
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it was duration, and embeddedHTML for Video. for Photo there is albumID, but
i think we can firstly ignore that.


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>> the code can be found here:
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>> git://gitorious.org/lilflickr/lilflickr.git
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>> cheers
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> I'm really happy with the progresses you reached so far! Keep rocking :)
> Cheers.
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