Index: openacs-4/packages/rss-support/www/doc/index.html =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/openacs-4/packages/rss-support/www/doc/index.html,v diff -u -r1.1 -r1.2 --- openacs-4/packages/rss-support/www/doc/index.html 4 Nov 2001 23:17:40 -0000 1.1 +++ openacs-4/packages/rss-support/www/doc/index.html 5 Nov 2001 02:53:33 -0000 1.2 @@ -63,15 +63,17 @@
-The feed generation service contract consists of two operations.
+The feed generation service contract is called RssGenerationSubscriber
and consists of two operations.
RssGenDatasource
. The return value of RssGenDatasource
-contains all required metadata fields as well as configuration
-information such as the RSS version to be used (0.91 or 1.00 are
-supported at present).
-RssLastUpdated
. Used to determine if the live summary
-is out of date.
+Datasource(context_identifier)
returns a data
+structure that contains all required metadata fields plus
+configuration information such as the RSS version to be used (0.91 or
+1.00 are supported at present). This data structure contains
+everything needed to run rss_gen
.
+
+LastUpdated(context_identifier)
returns a timestamp
+that is used to determine if the live summary is out of date.
@@ -97,13 +99,15 @@
RssGenDatasource
and uses the
- information to build a new summary page. This generic and simple scheme
- can be used to dispatch different versions of the summary builder as well
- as to support extensibility via modules. Warning:
- This design expects the output of RssGenDatasource to be reasonably small,
- as we will have to parse this list-of-lists to generate a summary.
+Datasource
and uses the information to build a new
+ summary page. This generic and simple scheme can be used to
+ dispatch different versions of the summary builder as well as to
+ support extensibility via modules. Warning:
+ This design expects the output of Datasource
to be
+ reasonably small, as we will have to parse this list-of-lists to
+ generate a summary.