[Panel-devel] A Twitter DataEngine

[Andre Duffeck]

Am Dienstag, 24. Juli 2007 22:23:45 schrieb 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 :)

Ok, i had not understood the dataengine concept. It now makes more sense and 
if you don't mind i'd import your engine into svn and start using it.
Or do you have a svn account?

André