[feedparser] What I'm Working on Today

[Brad Neuberg <bk...@columbia.edu>]

Howdy.  I've mapped out today (Thursday) to hack on the feed parser here at 
work, and just wanted to tell folks whats on my plate, rather than just 
keep it as conversations between Kevin and I.  Here is what I would like to 
achieve today:

   * Roll in unit tests for Flickr and Yahoo Groups into TestProbeLocator
   * Make Flickr support more robust (they support several different kinds 
of feeds, such as for tags, groups, etc., some which support autodiscovery 
correctly and some which don't)
   * Some of the unit tests won't run on Windows due to some file path 
expansion issues; I am going to try to fix these
   * The autodiscovery code is a bit flaky, breaking when the attributes 
are in the wrong order.  I want to fix this and improve the unit tests to 
be test more variations.

There might also be some issues with Feedster and Topix support that I will 
take a look at today and tommorrow.


Brad Neuberg, bkn3@columbia.edu
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Re: [feedparser] What I'm Working on Today

["Kevin A. Burton" <bu...@newsmonster.org>]

Brad Neuberg wrote:

> Howdy. I've mapped out today (Thursday) to hack on the feed parser 
> here at work, and just wanted to tell folks whats on my plate, rather 
> than just keep it as conversations between Kevin and I. Here is what I 
> would like to achieve today:
>
> * Roll in unit tests for Flickr and Yahoo Groups into TestProbeLocator

We really need to talk to Flickr about correctly implementing HTTP and 
RSS/Atom autodiscovery. They've been very bad about this ...

> * Make Flickr support more robust (they support several different 
> kinds of feeds, such as for tags, groups, etc., some which support 
> autodiscovery correctly and some which don't)

I didnt' realize this when I did my first implementation.... thanks.

> * Some of the unit tests won't run on Windows due to some file path 
> expansion issues; I am going to try to fix these

Yeah... my bad ;)

> * The autodiscovery code is a bit flaky, breaking when the attributes 
> are in the wrong order. I want to fix this and improve the unit tests 
> to be test more variations.

Could you come up with some unit tests for this? I think I came up with 
some and it passed all attribute ordering passes but you might be right.

>
> There might also be some issues with Feedster and Topix support that I 
> will take a look at today and tommorrow. 

Topix is important. I asked Feedster to make their changes to their site 
but they seem lazy :-/

Kevin

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