Missing elements in Buzz feeds

[Nick Bradbury]

I didn't notice this until I subscribed to my Buzz feed, but it looks
like GReader's version of Atom feeds don't include a lot of important
information. In the case of Buzz feeds, the most notable absences are
the Atom threading, MediaRSS, and activity stream extensions. Are
these expected to be supported at some point?

[Mihai Parparita]

Hi Nick,

I'll see if I can add a "pass-through" mode for Reader's Atom output
where we preserve unknown (to Reader) elements that appeared in the
source feed.

Mihai

[Mihai Parparita]

OK, I have an implementation of this working. You can compare:

The original Buzz feed:
http://buzz.googleapis.com/feeds/dclinton/public/posted

The current Reader version of it:
http://www.google.com/reader/atom/feed/http://buzz.googleapis.com/feeds/dclinton/public/posted

The high-fidelity mode that I'm working on:
http://persistent.info/tmp/dclinton-buzz.xml

Assuming something like this works for you, it should be deployed
sometime this week. It will be served under a different path
(/reader/atom/hifi/.., most likely), since these responses are quite
large and I'd rather have only clients that care about the extra
elements get them.

Mihai

[Mihai Parparita]

I've now pushed an initial version of this. Available both signed in:

http://www.google.com/reader/atom/hifi/feed/http://buzz.googleapis.com/feeds/dclinton/public/posted

And signed out:

http://www.google.com/reader/public/atom/hifi/feed/http://buzz.googleapis.com/feeds/dclinton/public/posted

Mihai

[Nick Bradbury]

Hi Mihai,

Sorry for not seeing this until now - been sidetracked with NG
enterprise work this week. Are the missing elements only included
when specifically requesting the "hi-fi" version of the feed, or are
they also included in the response to calls like "stream/items/
contents" as well?

Thanks,
Nick

[Mihai Parparita]

Forgot that you needed this for the stream/items/contents endpoint. We can add it there too (triggered by an output=atom-hifi param). Do you need it anywhere else?

Mihai

[Nick Bradbury]

I'm away from my main development machine this week, but I'm pretty
sure that stream/items/contents is the only place I'd need to have
"HiFi" support.

Thanks,
Nick

[Mihai Parparita]

OK, great. It should live, you can trigger it by using output=atom-hifi.

Mihai

2010/2/28 Nick Bradbury <nick.b...@gmail.com>