Overview

The RSS Reader can read a RSS feed and converts them to a list of RSS Items. These items can be used within your aplication.

- Some RSS feeds has there images in enclosue tag, other in media tag. Both with be placed in the enclosure attribute of the RSS item

Documentation

Typical usage scenario

Read RSSfeeds from newsites or blogs

Features and limitations

Reads the RSS feed and sets the RSS items to Mendix entity RSSFeed with the follwing attributes:

Title : The title of the RSS Item/ Article

Link : URL to the original article

Description : The (short) description of the article, some RSS feeds give complete article and some nothing, then you can use the link to send the user to the article

pubDate : publication date of the article as String, most RSS feeds use this format 'EEE, d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z’ Check it, because some use other formats

itemGuid : Guid to identify the newitem, can be used to check if you already have handled this item

Enclosure : URl to the image that come with the article. If RSS feed uses the media tag, then the URL from media will be stored in enclosure

Category : The category that is used for this article

Dependencies

No dependecies

Installation

Normal installation from Mendix Marketplace, result in a marketplace Add-on

Configuration

Drag and drop the ReadRSS microflow from the logic folder to your own microflow or use the call microflow activity. Give the input parameter the URL of the RSS feed and handle the list of returned RSS feeds (these are non-persistable by default)