Well,
this beotch keeps
dropping little hints as to what's to come in
blojsom 1.8 so I better give a quick rundown of what we're finishing up. It's also been like 11.82 days since our last release so we have to get a a new one out there
- Support for the Comment API
- Adding support for more of the Blogger API
- BlojsomFetcher: This is a good thing™. Adding support for this represented a lot of changes throughout the API, none of which you'll really notice except for the fact that there is now a more clean separation and abstraction of where blojsom will "fetch" its entries from. The interfaces and classes in the core API were also improved because of this new interface.
So, what is the BlojsomFetcher interface? Well, I guess I wasn't really joking (even though I was at the time) when I said blojsom would be backed by a database in blojsom 1.8 and abandon the filesystem. The truth of the matter is that with the BlojsomFetcher interface, blojsom could be backed by a database, even though by default, it will not.
Simply put, this interface abstracts where blojsom will retrieve its entries and categories. blojsom will by default ship with an implementation which retrieves categories and entries from the filesystem. You can imagine some scenarios like one in which someone writes a CachingFetcher that caches a set of entries for a particular request (making blojsom even faster than it is today) or a DatabaseFetcher which retrieves categories and entries from a database.
If Mark has time while he is waiting for jury duty tomorrow, he might get RESTLog support done
, but that will probably be available in blojsom 1.9. Expect the "drop" of blojsom 1.8 this Friday!
First off, this "blog" sets a cookie to indicate whether I'm JNLP compliant (they actually spelled compliant wrong on the question page). Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzt! I didn't get past that.
