Software & Application Miscellaneous: ZWiki RecentChanges as RSS feed

• peterbengtsson / 116 / Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:32:00 GMT / Comments (3)
• I've got a Zwiki instance that works just fine. If I visit it at
  I get a nice
  feed of all the recent changes.
  But I don't want to reach it by URL, I want to reach it
  programmatically. How do I do that?
  
  "return self.wiki.RecentChanges()" gives an AttributeError.
  
  I've looked throught the sources but there's too much DTML magic and
  other getSkinTemplate() magic.
  Thanks, Peter
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• 1. Hi Peter,
     I've got a Zwiki instance that works just fine. If I visit it at
     I get a nice
     feed of all the recent changes.
     
     I'm not familiar with ?action=rss_rc at all, it sounds like a local
     customization.
     But I don't want to reach it by URL, I want to reach it
     programmatically. How do I do that?
     
     "return self.wiki.RecentChanges()" gives an AttributeError.
     
     If you want to know why, post the traceback and I'll say more.
     Generally, to get a zwiki page to render itself programmatically, give
     it a REQUEST. Eg self.wiki.RecentChanges(REQUEST=REQUEST). In certain
     contexts you might still have skin trouble, in which case try
     self.wiki.RecentChanges(REQUEST=REQUEST,bare=1) to render without the skin.
     
     Current Zwiki has changes_rss and pages_rss methods built in, eg
     wiki.AnyPage.pages_rss().
     
     Cheers
     -Simon
     
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     simonmichael | Sun, 04 May 2008 12:49:00 GMT |

  2. I get a nice
     feed of all the recent changes.
     
     I'm not familiar with ?action=rss_rc at all, it sounds like a local
     customization.
     
     I'm sorry. That was for MoinMoin which we had before but upgraded to
     Zwiki. My script was assuming MoinMoin, hence the action=rss_rc stuff.
     
     Current Zwiki has changes_rss and pages_rss methods built in, eg
     wiki.AnyPage.pages_rss().
     
     If I do :
     "return ()" I seem to get what I want,
     I think. The big problem with this is that it seems to be in reverse
     order with the first wiki page first. I'd like it the other way
     around.
     
     What I want is basically
     but in RSS or RDF
     format so that I can use them somewhere else.

     peterbengtsson | Sun, 04 May 2008 12:50:00 GMT |

  3. Peter Bengtsson wrote:
     The big problem with this is that it seems to be in reverse
     order with the first wiki page first. I'd like it the other way
     around.
     
     Have a look at the changes_rss method in RSS.py (in 0.46). It calls
     pages(), which is essentially a catalog query restricted to this folder.
     You could move this method back to a pythonscript and tweak that query,
     or do it in dtml.
     
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     simonmichael | Sun, 04 May 2008 12:51:00 GMT |