Hi all,

I wanted to add RSS feeds for some of my message areas, but it seems the
wiki page at https://wiki.synchro.net/config:rss.ini covers an earlier
web interface and not the current webv4.

I had the impulse to mention that on the wiki page to avoid anyone else
falling into that trap, but it seems the mediawiki account registration
for wiki.synchro.net is not public, so I couldn't create an account and
hence not add a disclaimer.

I did a poor-mans-attempt of copying the rss.ssjs file to webv4/root
and it seems I can then get a list of the channels at https://c3bbs.retronetworking.org/rss.ssjs - but when selecting any of
the channels will run into JavaScript errors.

Basically the msgbase.get_msg_header(true,total_msgs-i); will return
null, as will the msgbase.get_msg_body(true,total_msgs-i);

So I'm bringing up two topics:

1) can the wiki pages related to web interface be expanded to clearly
mention which of the web interface versions they relate to?

2) did anyone get the rss.sjjs to successfully read the messages from
the message base in recent synchronet versions?

Thanks in advance,
Harald
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Hi all,

following-up to the second part of my earlier message:

LaF0rge <laf0rge@c3bbs.retronetworking.org> wrote:

2) did anyone get the rss.sjjs to successfully read the messages from
the message base in recent synchronet versions?

I managed to make it generate a working RSS feed using the following diff, containing two changes

a) adjusting the URLs to the scheme of the webv4 frontend

b) fixing an off-by-one for msgbase.get_{msg_header,body}

I'll see if I can create an account + post PRs on gitlab.synchro.net; at least the second part is an outright fix, even for the old web UI.
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LaF0rge <laf0rge@c3bbs.retronetworking.org> wrote:

I managed to make it generate a working RSS feed using the following diff, containing two changes

Sorry, forgot the diff in the previous message

--- repo/web/root/rss.ssjs 2024-12-09 12:57:20.024584412 +0000
+++ webv4/root/rss.ssjs 2024-12-19 14:12:42.310672917 +0000
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@

//log(LOG_INFO,"Synchronet RSS " + REVISION);

-var link_root = "http://" + http_request.header.host + http_request.request_string;
+var link_root = "https://" + http_request.header.host + http_request.request_string;

var ini_fname = file_cfgname(system.ctrl_dir, "rss.ini");

@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@
writeln('\t\t<lastBuildDate>' + last_msg.date + '</lastBuildDate>');
}
var total_msgs = msgbase.total_msgs;
- for(i=0;i<total_msgs;i++) {
+ for(i=1;i<=total_msgs;i++) {
var hdr = msgbase.get_msg_header(true,total_msgs-i);
if(!hdr || hdr.attr&MSG_DELETE)
continue;
@@ -190,8 +190,8 @@
if(this.login==undefined) // v3.12a
writeln('\t\t\t\t<link>' + link_root + (defaults.useentities ? '&amp;' : '&') + 'item=' + hdr.number + '</link>');
else // v3.12b
- writeln('\t\t\t\t<link>' + 'http://' + http_request.header.host + '/msgs/msg.ssjs?msg_sub=' +
- channel.sub + (defaults.useentities ? '&amp;' : '&') + 'message=' + hdr.number + '</link>');
+ writeln('\t\t\t\t<link>' + 'https://' + http_request.header.host + '/?page=001-forum.ssjs&sub=' +
+ channel.sub + (defaults.useentities ? '&amp;' : '&') + 'thread=' + hdr.number + '</link>');
writeln('\t\t\t</item>');
msgs++;
if(msgs>=channel.maxmessages)
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Re: wiki page about RSS not applicable to webv4
By: LaF0rge to DOVE-Net.Synchronet_Sysops on Thu Dec 19 2024 01:18 pm

Hi all,

I wanted to add RSS feeds for some of my message areas, but it seems the wiki page at https://wiki.synchro.net/config:rss.ini covers an earlier
web interface and not the current webv4.

There's really nothing particular to the web interface. The rss.ssjs file is in the web/root directory but can be just be copied or symlinked to a different web/root directory if that's what you're using.

I had the impulse to mention that on the wiki page to avoid anyone else falling into that trap, but it seems the mediawiki account registration
for wiki.synchro.net is not public, so I couldn't create an account and hence not add a disclaimer.

It's dokuwiki :-) And all you need is an account on Vertrauen to login to wiki.synchro.net, and you have one: C3BBS.

I did a poor-mans-attempt of copying the rss.ssjs file to webv4/root
and it seems I can then get a list of the channels at https://c3bbs.retronetworking.org/rss.ssjs - but when selecting any of
the channels will run into JavaScript errors.

It seems to be working for me:
var hdr = msgbase.get_msg_header(true,total_msgs-i);
if(!hdr || hdr.attr&MSG_DELETE)
continue;

Basically the msgbase.get_msg_header(true,total_msgs-i); will return
null, as will the msgbase.get_msg_body(true,total_msgs-i);

So I'm bringing up two topics:

1) can the wiki pages related to web interface be expanded to clearly
mention which of the web interface versions they relate to?

2) did anyone get the rss.sjjs to successfully read the messages from
the message base in recent synchronet versions?

Thanks in advance,
Harald

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Re: wiki page about RSS not applicable to webv4
By: LaF0rge to DOVE-Net.Synchronet_Sysops on Thu Dec 19 2024 01:18 pm

Sorry, I prematurely saved that last response.

Basically the msgbase.get_msg_header(true,total_msgs-i); will return
null, as will the msgbase.get_msg_body(true,total_msgs-i);

This logic here should just ignore/skip any message headers that can't be read (returned as null):

var hdr = msgbase.get_msg_header(true,total_msgs-i);
if(!hdr || hdr.attr&MSG_DELETE)
continue;

a null 'hdr' would match the "!hdr" condition and just be skipped, with no error.

So I'm bringing up two topics:

1) can the wiki pages related to web interface be expanded to clearly
mention which of the web interface versions they relate to?

I think I see what you're saying, the message URLs are pointing to msg.ssjs which is from the Legacy/Runemaster web interface. Sure, the wiki can be updated to clarify that.

2) did anyone get the rss.sjjs to successfully read the messages from
the message base in recent synchronet versions?

It seems to be working here: https://web.synchro.net/rss.ssjs
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