NAME

Angerwhale::View::Feed - Common class that abstracts a "feed" of some sort

DESCRIPTION

This class serializes Angerwhale::ContentItems, presumably to generate an RSS or YAML feed.

Here's what this class knows how to deal with:

A single Item

If we get a single article or comment, we get the tree of children, flatten it, and return the result as an array of serialized items.

Multiple Articles

If we get multiple articles, then we assume we're doing the main 'RSS feed', and return a list of those articles serialized without children.

METHODS

prepare_items

Takes the stash and outputs an array of "items" that go in the feed. It's then up to the subclass to turn that into something readable

serialize_item($item, $recursive?)

Serialize $item by converting it into a hashref. Normally Articles/Comments are lazy loaded, but this forces everything to be evaluated and added to a hashref.

Attributes in the retured hashref are: title, type, summary, signed, xhtml, text, raw, guid, uri, date (Created), modified, tags, categories the article is in (if possible), and an arrayref of comments (if $recursive).

TODO: make this automatic.

time2str

Format times as per Atom spec

AUTHOR

Jonathan Rockway