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RSS Feeds plugin for Grails released

Posted by: on Oct 31, 2007 | 7 Comments

I’ve finally managed to release the Grails Feeds Plugin I mentioned in my Grails Exchange 2007 talk.

What this plugin does is make it trivial for you to generate syndication feeds (RSS or Atom or any ROME supported format) from within your grails apps.

It supplies a FeedBuilder which uses a simple but flexible DSL for generating a feed data structure, and adds support to the controllers’ render() method to automatically take a feed DSL as input.

Check out the docs and install it into your app today (well as soon as plugins.grails.org DNS for SVN works again).

Docs are here.

Update: DNS issues resolved. You can install the plugin into your grails 1.0 application using: "grails install-plugin feeds"

7 Comments

  1. Ian Wilson
    November 1, 2007

    Sounds great, based on ROME shows the power of Groovy.
    I dont see a download anywhere, I assume that is the DNS issue?

    It seems like this should be part of the core Grails install (along with REST out of the box), is that planned?

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  2. Marc Palmer
    November 1, 2007

    Ian – no download required. Just type:

    grails install-plugin feeds

    …and it will install it into your project.

    Vis integrating into core, maybe but I doubt it. We want to keep core as minimal as possible.

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  3. Ian Wilson
    November 2, 2007

    Marc, thanks i did the install ok.

    Core was the wrong word, I meant to say core as in default install package, so this plugin comes with the default download.

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  4. David Hurt
    February 7, 2008

    Great work.
    Is there anyway this could work outside grails just as a groovy code?

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  5. Marc Palmer
    February 7, 2008

    David: Yes but not with the dynamic Render method obviously. Just use the FeedBuilder directly as shown in the code examples on the grails.org document site.

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  6. Anantha Narayanan
    December 19, 2011

    Hello Marc, I am new to Grails as well as Java. But the simplicity of using both Grails and your plugin had amazed me.

    Thanks a lot for your efforts. Your plugin is wonderful.

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    • Marc Palmer
      December 20, 2011

      Thanks for the kind words. Everyone on the Grails team works hard to make this happen!

      Reply

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