Does this work both ways? [#711874]

I maintain a network of websites (bookstores) which should ideally be able to do the following:

- each site publishes book review nodes and selectively enables some of those to be "shared" to a central server
- on this central server each site admin then selects book review nodes he would like to pull to his own website
- by some act of magic the selected nodes get pushed back to the subscriber's site

As far as I understand it, the second and third steps could be nicely done with this module. But how about the first one (pushing nodes from receiving sites to the central site)? Would it be possible/necessary for all the sites to be both receivers and publishers?

Currently I am using Feeds Api to realize my workflow, but I am not really satisfied with this since the act of creating proper feeds from nodes and then parsing those feeds back into nodes is quite complicated and error-prone.

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joachim commented 12 February 2010 at 07:50

I don't know why my earlier comment here keeps vanishing...

The answer is 'not yet'.

To allow your central server to retrieve from multiple bookstores, you'd need the Retriever site to be able to connect to multiple servers, which it can't do yet. There is a plan to do this: #711754: conversion to a Clients plugin, but a lot of work is needed. If you are able to help with that, that might help move things along more quickly!