raix:rssfeed
A package for serving data in RSS 2.0 XML format for Meteor
What is it?
It serves published data mounted on http://mysite.meteor.com/rss/name
or with a querystring http://mysite.meteor.com/rss/news?foo=latest
How?
Add the package
meteor add raix:rssfeed
Publish a feed
1RssFeed.publish('test', function(query) { 2 var self = this; 3 // We got 3 helpers: 4 // 1. self.setValue 5 // 2. self.addItem 6 // 3. self.cdata 7 8 9 // query is the parsed querystring as an object 10 // eg. foo=latest would be query.foo === 'latest' 11 12 // feed handler helpers 13 // this.cdata, this.setValue, this.addItem 14 self.setValue('title', self.cdata('My news')); 15 self.setValue('description', self.cdata('This is a live feed')); 16 self.setValue('link', 'http://mysite.meteor.com'); 17 self.setValue('lastBuildDate', new Date()); 18 self.setValue('pubDate', new Date()); 19 self.setValue('ttl', 1); 20 // managingEditor, webMaster, language, docs, generator 21 22 newsCollection.find({}).forEach(function(doc) { 23 self.addItem({ 24 title: doc.name, 25 description: doc.text, 26 link: 'http://mysite.meteor.com', 27 pubDate: new Date() 28 // title, description, link, guid, pubDate 29 }); 30 }); 31 32});
API
- RssFeed.publish: function(name, handlerFunction)
- RssFeed.unpublish: function(name)
Internal
- RssFeed.createTag: function(key, value)
- RssFeed.cdataValue: function(value)
- RssFeed.objectToXML: function(sourceObject)
this in publish feed handler helpers
- this.cdata: RssFeed.cdataValue
- this.setValue: function(key, value)
- this.addItem: function(itemObject)