Feed Filter - blojsom - Confluence

Availability

Available as of blojsom 2.29

Description

Allows you to use URLs like http://your.site.com/blojsom/blog/default/feed/ to retrieve a default, configurable flavor or http://your.site.com/blojsom/blog/default/feed/rss2/ to retrieve a specific flavor.

Installation and Configuration

Add the following to the top of /WEB-INF/web.xml with the other filter definitions.

<filter>
    <filter-name>FeedFilter</filter-name>
    <filter-class>org.blojsom.filter.FeedFilter</filter-class>   
    <init-param>
        <param-name>default-feed-type</param-name>
        <param-value>rss2</param-value>
    </init-param>
    <init-param>
        <param-name>permalink-extensions</param-name>
        <param-value>.html, .txt</param-value>
    </init-param>
</filter>

Initialization parameter	Optional	Default	Description
default-feed-type	true	rss2	Sets the default feed type when one is not requested after the /feed/ portion in the URL.
permalink-extensions	true	.html, .txt	Identifies how permalinks will be recognized in the URL.

Add the following to the top of /WEB-INF/web.xml with the other filter-mapping definitions. This filter-mapping should be placed before the PermalinkFilter mapping.

<filter-mapping>
    <filter-name>FeedFilter</filter-name>
    <servlet-name>blojsom</servlet-name>
</filter-mapping>

Usage

Add /feed/ to the end of your blog's URL to request the default feed type.

Alternatively, you may add /feed/(feed-type)/ on the end of your blog's URL to request a feed type of (feed-type). For example, /feed/atom/, would request the Atom feed for your blog.