Re: [mylar-dev] Synchronizing RSS Feed with Task list

[Eugene Kuleshov <eu@xxxxxxxx>]

Anthony,

 I wrote very simple Web repository provider, which is now reside in 
Mylar's org.eclipse.mylar.sandbox plugin. It is using regexp-based 
filtering to retrieve tasks and descriptions.

 Currently it is implemented as a standalone connector but I am leaning 
towards that it should be integrated with Mylar more tightly. Right now 
you would have to specify repository parameters that are somehow 
redundant and only used to link existing  repository tasks by their id.

 I've also suggested to implement RSS support but it would require 3rd 
paty frameworks such as Jakarta FeedParser or Rome (both licensed under 
ASF) to handle feed parsing. FeedParse can handle feed autodiscovery, so 
it would be really handy.

http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/sandbox/feedparser/
https://rome.dev.java.net/

 Hey Mik, can you please request PMC permission to use FeedParser in Mylar?

 Ideally it would be nice to eliminate need to have settings for web 
repositories and just allow to create web repository queries even using 
drag-n-drop from the web browser (internal or external). So, it would 
try to autodiscovery rss feeds and if none found, allow to define 
regexp-based query or choose to add an individual issue instead. This 
drag-n-drop should also try to match url to the registered repositories 
and resolve tasks from bugzilla or jira.

 regards,
 Eugene


Anthony Bargnesi wrote:
> Hello Mylar devs,
>
> A while back I was interested in building on mylar extension points to 
> synchronize our company's
> RSS feed (of issue URLs to home grown issue webapp.) with the Mylar 
> Task List.  Basically I would
> want to parse the rss feed and add the rss items to the TaskList if 
> they are not already there.  We would
> not want to overwrite a Task context for the same item. 
>
> I know how to parse the rss feed from our site, but my problems lie 
> with using mylar extension points.  I am
> new to eclipse plugin dev. (especially plugins that use other 
> plugins).  Where would be a good place to start
> looking in the mylar project on how to add to the Task List?  I have 
> the whole mylar project checked out from
> cvs.
>
> Thanks for your help.  If this works out maybe I can make this generic 
> enough to work with any rss url in which
> case I will submit it as a patch if interested.
>
> -Anthony Bargnesi