RSS feed?

[Paul]

Howdy.

I'm on Mezzanine 4.2.2 and Django 1.10.4. 

I see some remnants of RSS throughout the code, but I can't seem to get it working.

I assume it needs no other config, it simply works.

I tried adding this to my base.html, per what I found within the Mezzanine base.html file:

    <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="{% url "blog_post_feed" "rss" %}">

    <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Atom" href="{% url "blog_post_feed" "atom" %}">

However, that didn't work, it's throwing a 404 (when I view source and go to resulting url).

I've tried /feed.xml as well, and that was a 404. 

Does RSS need to be enabled for it to work? Or do I need a template for this? I couldn't find something clear in the docs or on Google.

Thank you. 

[Stephen McDonald]

It should just work, here it is on the demo site: http://mezzanine.jupo.org/blog/feeds/rss/

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[Paul Gx]

Thank you Stephen for the quick response.

I believe I found the conflict, I have this in urls.py:

url(r'^articles/(?P<slug>[^/]*)/.+$', views.article_redirect, name='Articles'),

If I comment out this line it does work.

Is there a way in urls.py to have articles/feeds/ ignored? 

Or, in views.article_redirect, I could run some logic if slug == 'feeds'. 

Thanks!

[Stephen McDonald]

If you read the Django docs you'l learn that the order of the urlpatterns matters:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/topics/http/urls/

[Paul Gx]

Yes, thank you.

I tried to import core in urls to put rss feed above mine:

from mezzanine.blog import mezzanine_views

_slash = "/" if settings.APPEND_SLASH else ""

...

    url(r"^articles/feeds/(?P<format>.*)%s$" % _slash,

        mezzanine_views.blog_post_feed, name="blog_post_feed"),

    url(r'^articles/(?P<slug>[^/]*)/.+$', views.articles_redirect, name='Insight'),

And articles_redirect() is...

def articles_redirect(request, slug):

    return HttpResponsePermanentRedirect(reverse('blog_post_detail', kwargs={'slug': slug}))

I did this a while back, not sure how this helps me (I suspect it would be redundant but I must have had a reason for it, it was in my earlier days with Mezzanine and Django)

[Paul Gx]

Ah! I remember now. In our old system, we had unique codes at the end of blog articles. 

eg. /article/some-title-slug/sdf23

This is the only way I knew how to set up that redirect so it works properly. 

[Paul Gx]

Ok, got it, I added this in views:

def feed(request, format, **kwargs):

    """

    Blog posts feeds - maps format to the correct feed view.

    """

    try:

        return {"rss": PostsRSS, "atom": PostsAtom}[format](**kwargs)(request)

    except KeyError:

        raise Http404()

Modified this in urls:

    url(r'^articles/feeds/(?P<format>[^/]*)/$', views.feed, name='Articles Feed'),

    url(r'^ articles/(?P<slug>[^/]*)/.+$', views.article_redirect, name='Articles'),

I took feed() from core, seems to do the trick.

Thanks –