GSoC: PMC: JavaScript backends progress

[Alessandro Diaferia]

2010/6/28 Hayri Bakici <thehayro at gmail.com>

> Hey guys!
>
> Here is a quick update about the Plasma Media Center backends in writing a
> dataengine in JS.
>
> 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
>
> plasmoid.include('libsomething.js');
>
> 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.
>
> 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?
>



>
> 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?
>

Which one of them?  We can eventually use an associative array though.


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

-- 
Alessandro Diaferia
KDE Developer
KDE e.V. member
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