p4rss

Name

p4rss.py - generate RSS feed from p4 changes -m 10.

Synopsis

python p4rss.py > /path/to/rssfile

Description

p4rss.py converts usual output from p4 changes e.g.

Change 10 on 2003/02/26 by hjh@p4rss 'Doc on RSS 0.91 vs 1.0, and cos'
Change 9 on 2003/02/26 by hjh@p4rss 'Add a bit more doc. '
Change 8 on 2003/02/26 by hjh@p4rss 'Documentation and cosmetic chan'
...

to RSS 0.91 format see sample.p4rss.xml. Run it inside a cron job to generate the RSS periodically.

Because p4rss.py uses vanilla p4, user can modify its behaviour with usual P4 environment variables.

Bugs

p4rss.py has many limitations:

no way to limit the change list to specific depot/branch.
supports only RSS 0.91 and not other versions of RSS.
need to escape HTML entities in <description>
p4 changes returns following data fields
- status: ignored
- client: ignored
- user: ignored
- code: ignored
- time: ignored
- change: displayed as <title> element
- desc: displayed as <description> element
User and time fields are useful information and need to be displayed. Maybe more extensible RSS 1.0+ should be used instead of really simple 0.91?
<link> element is set to http://public.perforce.com for now i.e. it is not really meaningful. As of 2781, <item> url is set to p4db url e.g. 2781.
no support for caching and other advanced features.

Todo

study web interfaces like p4db, p4web or PyDS
trim this doc comment as it's even longer than the code!

Download

Download it from either p4rss (via p4db). or via p4 directly: //guest/jay_han/p4rss or from my blog page: python script: p4rss.zip and sample RSS: sample.p4rss.xml