metadata-and-url feed problem

[elvin de guzman]

Hi,

 

I have this project that automates the feed to gsa box using the metadata-and-url type feed, the strategy is they will be sending an incremental feed by schedule and need to be refresh with a full feed on midnight.

 

My first question is would be is sending the full feed will update all the previous incremental feed? Is there a way to delete the incremental feed and then just load the full feed to gsa?

 

Normally what I do to delete a datasource on GSA is using a the web form and passing a blank "full" feed xml like below:

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE gsafeed PUBLIC "-//Google//DTD GSA Feeds//EN" ""><gsafeed>
  <header>
    <datasource>PXBGSAFEED</datasource>
    <feedtype>full</feedtype>
  </header>
  <group>
  </group>
</gsafeed>

 

But I have to go the gsa and manually click delete and then destroy, is there any way to do this programatically?

 

[Mathias Bierl]

I guess you are misunderstood something here:

full and incremental feeds are feeds which has to include the content.

metadata-and-url feeds just give metadata and the url to GSA and if you want to remove URLs from there then either the url must be non-reachable or you have to send a delete feed

[elvin de guzman]

Hi,

 

I tried doing that as well sending something like this

 

<feedtype>metadata-and-url</feedtype>
</header>
<group action="delete">
<record url="https://someurlhere/file.pdf"/>
</group>

 

But i'm getting this error on the feed when loading it "ProcessNode: Invalid record (no content), skipping record."

[Jeremy Garreau]

You can't delete a metadata and url type feed.

[Mathias Bierl]

@Jeremy

But you can delete documents with a delete action.

Only the full deletion via admin console is not possible.

You can also see this in the documentation

[Jeremy Garreau]

Based on the first post, I assumed he was trying to send a delete to a metadata-and-url feeds using a full feeds, seems like I was wrong.

If you just need to refresh the feeds, just send it once again, it should be enough.

[elvin de guzman]

Thanks will do that