Displaying out plain text from servlet via widget

[jerzelleLim2009]

Hi, i would like to ask for advice in this area. I am new to widgets and had come across a project that used the Nokia WRT with aptana studio. I would like to ask if there are any methods we can read the processed content from a servlet?

I am working on a RSS feeder which actually display out news through the servlet instead of getting news directly from the URL.

The content that is processed out from the servlet are plain text.

So, how could i actually get the plain text from the servlet via the RSS in Nokia WRT?

Thank You.

[jappit]

Hi jerzelleLim2009,

you can check out the "RSS Reader Widget project" sample that is shipped with the Aptana WRT plugin. There you can find all the code you need to read and display text taken from a RSS feed. Basically, what you have to do is:

* request your feed URL with an XMLHttpRequest object
* navigate the items contained in the response XML, taking all the informations you need to display
* put the textual info you want to display inside HTML elements (e.g.: divs, spans, etc..)

Just ask if you need any further help.

Pit

[jerzelleLim2009]

Hi Pit,

Thanks for the suggestions. If the content passed is not in XML format but plain text format,how can i code the RSS Reader to put the textual info to display inside HTML elements?


jerzelleLim2009

[jappit]

Hi jerzelleLim2009,

to deal with text responses, instead of using the request's responseXML property, just use the responseText one.

Pit

[jerzelleLim2009]

Hi Pit,

Finally manage to solve it already. Thanks for the advice. Btw, do you have any idea how to hide the updateFrequencyOption where i fixed a time and not let the user choose?

[jappit]

Hi,

you should set 'feedUpdateFrequency' variable to the frequency you've chosen and then, to hide the frequency setting menu, it should be enough to comment out this lines (all these changes are is RSSReader.js):

settingsView.addControl(feedUpdateFrequencySelection);

and:

feedUpdateFrequency = (selectedFrequency != null) ? selectedFrequency.value : -1;

Hope it helps,
Pit

[jerzelleLim2009]

Hi Pit

do you have any idea on how to hide the whole menu and when i open the application, it will straight away load the feed and display the content?


Thanks in advance,
jerzelleLim2009