dojox.data.GoogleFeedStore ¶

Status:	Contributed, Draft
Version:	1.0
Author:	Shane O’Sullivan
Available:	since V1.2

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dojox.data.GoogleFeedStore

The GoogleFeedStore is a store designed to work against Google’s feed reading AJAX API. This store is an extension of GoogleSearchStore.

Note: These stores make use of Google’s AJAX search and feed services. In order to use them in your web-sites, please make sure to read Google’s terms and conditions and agree to them before using these stores.

API Support ¶

dojo.data.api.Read

Constructor Params ¶

The following parameters are supported by the GoogleFeedStore implementation.

name	description	type
label	The attribute of the search returns to use as the item’s label. Defaults to titleNoFormatting.	string
key	Your Google API key (optional)	string
lang	The language locale to use. Defaults to the browser locale.	string

Item Attributes ¶

The following attributes are available on items returned from the GoogleFeedStore

Attribute	Description
title	The feed entry title.
link	The URL for the HTML version of the feed entry.
content	The full content of the blog post, in HTML format
summary	A snippet of information about the feed entry, in plain text
published	The string date on which the entry was published. You can parse the date with new Date(store.getValue(item, “published”).
categories	An array of string tags for the entry

Query Syntax ¶

The query syntax for this store is simple. It takes a single object with the attribute ‘url’, where the value of the feed to retrieve

Query Example ¶

{
  "url" : "http://news.google.com/nwshp?hl=en&tab=wn&output=atom"
}

Example Usage ¶

<script>
  dojo.require("dijit.form.Button");
  dojo.require("dijit.form.TextBox");
  dojo.require("dijit.layout.TabContainer");
  dojo.require("dijit.layout.ContentPane");
  dojo.require("dojox.data.GoogleFeedStore");
  dojo.require("dojox.grid.DataGrid");

  function hrefFormatter(value) {
    value = unescape(value);
    return "<a href=\"" + value + "\" target=\"_blank\">Link</a>";
  };

  var layoutResults = [
    [
      { field: "title", name: "Title", width: 20 },
      { field: "link", name: "URL", width: 5, formatter: hrefFormatter},
      { field: "summary", name: "Summary", width: 'auto' }
    ]
  ];

  function init() {
     function search() {
        var text = dijit.byId("urlText").getValue();
        text = dojo.trim(text);
        if (text !== "" ) {
          var query = { url: text };
          dijit.byId("feedGrid").setQuery(query);
        }
     }
     dojo.connect(dijit.byId("searchButton"), "onClick", search);
  }
  dojo.addOnLoad(init);
</script>

<b>Input feed URL here:</b>
<br>
<br>
<input dojoType="dijit.form.TextBox" style="width:50em;" id="urlText" value="http://news.google.com/nwshp?hl=en&amp;tab=wn&amp;output=atom"></input>
<br>
<div dojoType="dijit.form.Button" id="searchButton">Search!</div>
<div dojoType="dojox.data.GoogleFeedStore" jsId="feedStore"></div>
<br>
<br>
<div style="width: 750px; height: 300px;">
  <div id="feedGrid"
    dojoType="dojox.grid.DataGrid"
    store="feedStore"
    structure="layoutResults"
    query="{url:'http://news.google.com/nwshp?hl=en&tab=wn&output=atom'}"
    rowsPerPage="40">
  </div>
</div>

<style type="text/css">
  @import "{{baseUrl}}dojox/grid/resources/Grid.css";
  @import "{{baseUrl}}dojox/grid/resources/nihiloGrid.css";

  .dojoxGrid table {
    margin: 0;
  }
</style>

The following example shows wiring the GoogleFeedStore to dojox.data.DataGrid.

dojox.data.GoogleFeedStore

dojox.data.GoogleFeedStore¶

API Support¶

Constructor Params¶

Item Attributes¶

Query Syntax¶

Query Example¶

Example Usage¶

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