[Panel-devel] A Twitter DataEngine

[Trever Fischer]

On Tuesday 24 July 2007 6:20:27 am Andre Duffeck wrote:
> Oh, you succeeded in downloading the twitter stuff with QHttp. I did not
> with KIO and ended up implementing it on top of QTcpSocket...
I wanted to start somewhere simple, as how to stuff all the data into such a 
restrictive design was my main priority. Using KIO would be a great idea 
because then proxy settings would be honored.

> I can't say much to the way of implementation, because i have hardly looked
> at the DataEngine stuff at all, but besides that i think i'd rather want to
> retrieve the raw XML in the Timeline and Timeline:user data source instead
> of the ids only.
That doesn't seem to make much sense to me. If you just wanted the engine to 
return raw XML, making a HTTP/KIO data engine that returns the contents of a 
file would be the same thing.

> Having one source per tweet seems a little overkill for 
> me, but that's just my opinion and maybe others can comment on that, too?
I had other ideas for how to stuff such a complicated data structure into a 
DataSource, and this seemed to make the most sense to me. Another idea I had 
was to use a QList of QMaps but /that/ seemed like overkill to me. The idea 
would have been to create the same structure in the Update: elements, but in 
a QMap and in a user's timeline. It didn't seem right to me to use some 
made-up storage format, when there are already tools available. I use 
DataEngine's auto-expiration property to limit the total sources to 30 
though.

> Besides i'd like to use your engine in the applet...
Thanks :)

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