* Support pinging services such as Technorati using XML-RPC to notify them

about changes to rss feeds.

IkiWiki.pm

@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ sub defaultconfig () { #{{{
 	svnpath => "trunk",
 	srcdir => undef,
 	destdir => undef,
+	pingurl => [],
 	templatedir => "/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates",
 	underlaydir => "/usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki",
 	setup => undef,

IkiWiki/Plugin/inline.pm

@@ -9,12 +9,19 @@ use IkiWiki;
 sub import { #{{{
 	IkiWiki::hook(type => "preprocess", id => "inline", 
 		call => \&IkiWiki::preprocess_inline);
+	# Hook to change to do pinging since it's called late.
+	# This ensures each page only pings once and prevents slow
+	# pings interrupting page builds.
+	IkiWiki::hook(type => "change", id => "inline", 
+		call => \&IkiWiki::pingurl);
 } # }}}
 
 # Back to ikiwiki namespace for the rest, this code is very much
 # internal to ikiwiki even though it's separated into a plugin.
 package IkiWiki;
-	
+
+my %toping;
+
 sub preprocess_inline (@) { #{{{
 	my %params=@_;
 
@@ -72,6 +79,7 @@ sub preprocess_inline (@) { #{{{
 	if ($config{rss}) {
 		writefile(rsspage($params{page}), $config{destdir},
 			genrss($params{page}, @pages));
+		$toping{$params{page}}=1;
 	}
 	
 	return $ret;
@@ -160,4 +168,32 @@ sub genrss ($@) { #{{{
 	return $template->output;
 } #}}}
 
+sub pingurl (@) { #{{{
+	return unless $config{pingurl} && %toping;
+
+	eval q{require RPC::XML::Client};
+	if ($@) {
+		debug("RPC::XML::Client not found, not pinging");
+	}
+
+	foreach my $page (keys %toping) {
+		my $title=pagetitle(basename($page));
+		my $url="$config{url}/".htmlpage($page);
+		foreach my $pingurl (@{$config{pingurl}}) {
+			my $client = RPC::XML::Client->new($pingurl);
+			my $req = RPC::XML::request->new('weblogUpdates.ping',
+				$title, $url);
+			debug("Pinging $pingurl for $page");
+			my $res = $client->send_request($req);
+			if (! ref $res) {
+				debug("Did not receive response to ping");
+			}
+			my $r=$res->value;
+			if (! exists $r->{flerror} || $r->{flerror}) {
+				debug("Ping rejected: ".$r->{message});
+			}
+		}
+	}
+} #}}}
+
 1

debian/changelog

@@ -2,8 +2,10 @@ ikiwiki (1.8) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
 
   * Fix orphans plugin to not count a link to a nonexistant page as a reason
     for a page not being an orphan.
+  * Support pinging services such as Technorati using XML-RPC to notify them
+    about changes to rss feeds.
 
- -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 25 Jun 2006 03:20:48 -0400
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 26 Jun 2006 20:41:45 -0400
 
 ikiwiki (1.7) unstable; urgency=low
 

debian/control

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Package: ikiwiki
 Architecture: all
 Depends: ${perl:Depends}, markdown, libtimedate-perl, libhtml-template-perl, libhtml-scrubber-perl, libcgi-formbuilder-perl (>= 3.02.02), libtime-duration-perl, libcgi-session-perl, libmail-sendmail-perl, gcc | c-compiler, libc6-dev | libc-dev
 Recommends: subversion | git-core, hyperestraier
-Suggests: viewcvs
+Suggests: viewcvs, librpc-xml-perl
 Description: a wiki compiler
  ikiwiki converts a directory full of wiki pages into html pages suitable
  for publishing on a website. Unlike many wikis, ikiwiki does not have its

doc/ikiwiki.setup

@@ -63,6 +63,8 @@ use IkiWiki::Setup::Standard {
 	#anonok => 1,
 	# Generate rss feeds for pages?
 	rss => 1,
+	# Urls to ping with XML-RPC when rss feeds are updated
+	#pingurl => [qw{http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping}],
 	# Include discussion links on all pages?
 	discussion => 1,
 	# Time format (for strftime)

doc/install.mdwn

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 The easiest way to install ikiwiki is using the Debian package.
 
 Ikiwiki requires [[MarkDown]] be installed, and also uses the following
-perl modules: `CGI::Session` `CGI::FormBuilder` (version 3.02.02 or
-newer) `HTML::Template` `Mail::SendMail` `Time::Duration` `Date::Parse`
-(libtimedate-perl), `HTML::Scrubber`
+perl modules if available: `CGI::Session` `CGI::FormBuilder` (version
+3.02.02 or newer) `HTML::Template` `Mail::SendMail` `Time::Duration`
+`Date::Parse` (libtimedate-perl), `HTML::Scrubber`, `RPC::XML`
 
 If you want to install from the tarball, you should make sure that the required perl modules are installed, then run:
 
@@ -11,4 +11,4 @@ If you want to install from the tarball, you should make sure that the required
         make
         make install
 
-See [[download]] for where to get it.
+See [[download]] for where to get it.

doc/todo/plugin.mdwn

@@ -36,5 +36,4 @@ Suggestions of ideas for plugins:
 All the kinds of plugins that blogging software has is also a possibility:
 
 * Blog post calendar
-* technocrati pinger
 * Tag stuff?

doc/usage.mdwn

@@ -128,7 +128,16 @@ These options configure the wiki.
   If rss is set, ikiwiki will generate rss feeds for pages that inline
   a [[blog]].
 
-* --url http://url/
+* --pingurl url
+
+  Set this to the url to an XML-RPC service to ping when an RSS feed is
+  updated. For example, to ping Technorati, use the url
+  http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
+
+  This parameter can be specified multiple times to specify more than one
+  url to ping.
+
+* --url url
 
   Specifies the url to the wiki. This is a required parameter in [[CGI]] mode.
 

ikiwiki

@@ -59,6 +59,9 @@ sub getconfig () { #{{{
 			"disable-plugin=s@" => sub {
 				$config{plugin}=[grep { $_ ne $_[1] } @{$config{plugin}} ];
 			},
+			"pingurl" => sub {
+				push @{$config{pingurl}}, $_[1];
+			}
 		) || usage();
 
 		if (! $config{setup}) {