Feeds Integration [#956170]

Hi,

I'm wondering what, if any, plans there are to develop a Feeds mapper for biblio nodes. Is this something that's even being considered? 6.x-2.x? 7.x-2.x?

I realize this is a non-trivial task and it would be complicated by the fact that biblio nodes are custom node types. (And I'm aware of many of the discussions about moving Biblio to a CCK/fields-in-core model, so I would gather that 7.x-2.x would be the logical place for this.)

The advantages that I see of Feeds integration over the existing (excellent) import options are:

Scheduled imports
Updating existing nodes based on an external data source

However, searching (in both Biblio and Feeds issue queues) turns up no discussion of Feeds integration so I thought I would throw it on the pile of feature requests and see if there are any extant code snippets or development work in that direction before attempting to write a mapper myself.

Thanks!

Comments

Comment #2

john bickar commented 29 October 2010 at 16:59

Curiously, there appears to be the function biblio_import_from_url(), which is in biblio.import.export.inc, but does not appear to be called anywhere.

Yet :D

Comment #3

rjerome commented 29 October 2010 at 17:35

I did look into feedapi a while back, and if I recall correctly, thought it looked promising, but I think it was a bit of a moving/incomplete target at the time. It can certainly stay on the table though.

As for that import from url function... I believe that I discovered a drupal core function that made that redundant, but I never actually took it out.