Question for the geeks in the crowd

[andrewducker]

Okay, so if I want something to scrape an RSS feed and turn it into a daily
LJ/DW post, how hard is that going to be? Anyone got something handy that
I can kick off on a daily basis?

Or a service they could recommend?

Comments

[johnbobshaun.livejournal.com]

Especially if you don't need to faff around with the BigTable datastore.

[andrewducker]

Turns out I do! But it's not that hard if you use a library like Objectify to do all the hard work for you.

[johnbobshaun.livejournal.com]

Good to know. I take it that Objectify is an ORM-style tool? Like Hibernate? Or whatever the .NET equivalent is?

TBH, everything I've used GAE for has had such simple data requirements that I've never needed to dig into that side of things. But I've used MongoDB when dicking around with Rails and am guessing that it's reasonably similar.

[andrewducker]

NHibernate :->

It's the hibernate equivalent for BigTable. Allows you to just put objects into the datastore and get them back. And because BigTable is basically just a key/value store it works incredibly simply.

You can do stuff like this:
Car porsche = new Car("2FAST", "red");
ofy.put(porsche);

and then retrieve it with:
Car car = ofy.query(Car.class).filter("vin", "2FAST").get();