Aggregator
This page outlines planned improvements to Drupal's core RSS/Atom aggregator for Drupal version 7. It is a summary document for ongoing work and provides an overview over tasks that are broken out into separate issues - see Aggregator issues on Drupal's issue queue.
Pluggable architecture
#303930: Pluggable architecture for aggregator.module
The pluggable architecture introduces three types of extensions to Aggregator.
1) Fetchers http://api.drupal.org/api/function/hook_aggregator_fetch/7
2) Parsers http://api.drupal.org/api/function/hook_aggregator_parse/7
3) Processors http://api.drupal.org/api/function/hook_aggregator_process/7
Fetchers can download data, parsers normalize it to an internal format and processors 'do stuff' with it. In a simple example, a fetcher would download an RSS feed from a URL, a parser would create a PHP array from it and a processor would save the news items the parser found.
Other improvements
- #397872: Aggregator: many feeds cause cron time out (Novice task)
- #398474: Make aggregator array keys lower case (Novice task)
- #60468: Allow aggregator feed items to never be discarded (Novice task)
- #19646: Aggregator: Feed Suspend Option (Novice task)
- #218004: Allow aggregator feed URLs longer than 255 characters (Novice task)
- #398550: Remove locked in limitation of adding a feed only once
- #398556: One block per feed does not scale
- #398578: Remove 'news' language from aggregator
Novice tasks are tasks that people with a good understanding of PHP programming but new to Drupal or Drupal's core issue queue should be able to tackle.