Patch: more control over filtering

[Chris Dolan]

Oops, further testing revealed a problem with the previous patch.   
Here's another:

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Chris

On Jan 16, 2006, at 2:39 PM, Chris Dolan wrote:

> Currently, planet allows positive or negative regex matches on the  
> title and content fields via the "filter" and "exclude"  
> directives.  Attached is a patch (against jdub at perkypants.org-- 
> projects/planet--devel--1.0--patch-9) that offers more control over  
> the fields you can filter on.  For example, I'd like to say:
>
> filter = language =~ /^en/
>          author =~ /Chris/
> exclude = title =~ /foo/
>           any =~ /spam/
>
> The syntax allows line continuations to permit more than one  
> filter.  Note that the "=~" and the "/" delimeters trigger the new  
> syntax.  If they aren't found, then the old syntax is assumed (that  
> is, the whole value is a regexp that applies to content and  
> title).  The possible keywords are any of the properties of the  
> NewsItem class, namely: any (which means just title+content right  
> now), title, link, summary, content, author, category, etc.
>
> The complete syntax is:
>
>    keyword := [a-z]+
>    pattern := *
>    match   := keyword \s* =~ \s* /pattern/ | pattern
>    filter  := match ( \n \s* match )*
>
> I'm a newcomer to Python, so there are probably better ways to do  
> some of this...
>
> <filter.patch>
>
> Chris
>
> P.S. the NewsItem class currently does not support the "language"  
> property, which is used in the example above.  This appears to be  
> an oversight.  If it existed, I would use it to filter multi- 
> lingual blog feeds to show just the posts that I can read.  I'd be  
> thrilled if someone else would improve NewsItem to support  
> <dc:language> tags in <item> entries, as shown in this example  
> RSS:  http://glazman.org/weblog/dotclear/rss.php
>
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