Review Request 110255: Added plugin to expand URL Shortener urls

[Anant Kamath]

> On May 1, 2013, 2:01 p.m., David Edmundson wrote:
> > filters/urlexpansion/urlexpansion-filter.cpp, line 54
> > <http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/110255/diff/1/?file=141590#file141590line54>
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> >     I'm a bit worried about this.
> >     If we get a message and longurl.org is offline we now take 30 seconds (till timeout) whilst we are completely blocking the UI.
> >     
> >     I suggest we make this async, and if the user gets any short links before this finishes - tough luck to them.
> >     
> >     unless anyone can think of something better that isn't over-complicated?
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> David Edmundson wrote:
>     or we could cache this locally.
>     
>     Either on first run or we can just ship this file http://api.longurl.org/v2/services?format=json in our release tarball.
>     I could add it to the packaging scripts to download and save it.
>

Shipping it with the tarball sounds good. This list is not going to change frequently, and it has a whole lot of url shortening services already. 
Is it a good idea to just add a .json file in the same folder, add it to the CMakeLists.txt to install it, and open it with QFile to load the json data? Or something else?


- Anant


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On May 1, 2013, 12:08 p.m., Anant Kamath wrote:
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> (Updated May 1, 2013, 12:08 p.m.)
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> Review request for Telepathy, David Edmundson and Daniele E. Domenichelli.
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> Description
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> The plugin checks for available services from longurl.org upon loading.
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> Filtering is done in the client via javascript. 
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> This addresses bug 310512.
>     http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=310512
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> Diffs
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>   filters/CMakeLists.txt c66e773 
>   filters/urlexpansion/CMakeLists.txt PRE-CREATION 
>   filters/urlexpansion/ktptextui_message_filter_urlexpansion.desktop.cmake PRE-CREATION 
>   filters/urlexpansion/longurl.js PRE-CREATION 
>   filters/urlexpansion/urlexpansion-filter.h PRE-CREATION 
>   filters/urlexpansion/urlexpansion-filter.cpp PRE-CREATION 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/110255/diff/
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> Testing
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> Tested. Check screenshots.
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> File Attachments
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>   http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2013/05/01/url1.png
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> Thanks,
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> Anant Kamath
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