Re: xAP News and multiple stories

[James <james@xxxxxxx>]

Stuart Booth wrote:

>Ah, I notice on your scheme page something that seems to confirm
>news.alert is only the top story as the schema does not include a
>Count parameter in the news.feed block, nor does it allow for indexed
>news.story blocks as it does for news.report messages.
>
>Any thoughts on the best way to guarantee broadcast of all new stories
>detected?
>
>At the moment I think I'm going to have monitor every news.report
>message, scan the contents and compare against my own saved history of
>what headlines I've seen before. And also do it often enough to not be
>limited by the xAP message size issue.
>
>If I'm correct about the limitations of news.alert messages
>potentially missing block story updates, do you think that would be a
>reasonable change request for a future update someday?
>
>S
>
>
As you have discovered the news.alert is limited only to the top story.
Changing this in the current framework would be very tricky but as I'm
going to re-do the app for the Intranet I'll be able to add this
feature.  I've sent you offlist an updated news that sends multiple
messages to cover all stories for a feed (news.report messages)  let me
know it it works ok and I'll release it fully. You may need to increase
the max story count in the news.txt file though.

J