Motivation

Using the standard RSS Feed Portlet of Plone, you may end up in blocked Zope threads when the requested URLs are not responding in a sensible time. This alternative prohibits this by doing the work on the client.

Abstract

collective.portlet.rssjs adds a new Portlet RSS Feed (JS) to the Plone Site.

This portlet uses the GOOGLE FEEDS API via ajax to get and parse rss feeds.

As a boilerplate

http://plugins.jquery.com/project/jgfeed

was used.

The dom is manipulated on the client to add the Feed Items.

The portlet has the same markup as the std Plone RSS Feed portlet.

0.2 (2010-07-19)

• add pubdate for feed entries, showing the date using toLocaleDateString [hplocher]
• add even/odd classes [hplocher]
• add compatibility with Plone 3 (use jQuery instead of $, as $ is undefined in Plone 3) [hplocher]

0.1 (2010-07-16)

• Initial release