[atlas-l] welcome back!

Jeremie Miller jeremie at jabber.org
Sun Jul 13 05:03:19 UTC 2008


A long sabbatical, but it's time to start pushing Atlas forward again  
now that the Wikia Search stuff is really going good and can serve as  
our early adopters :)

I've been working quietly for a few weeks to really circle back and  
think about Atlas and how to get the protocol to a usable state, and  
one of the things I've learned is wonderful over the last year is  
JSON, and I've combined the two and updated some of my ideas about how  
a knugget is defined:
	http://search.wikia.com/wiki/Atlas#What_is_a_knugget.3F

It's really rather terse yet, but hopefully it will start to make  
sense (and probably morph a lot) as we start to play with it in  
practice. I've also made a really really simplistic Factory, I suppose  
you could say it's the most minimal one possible to implement (just  
change url for other pages):
	http://re.search.wikia.com/do/factory?url=http://perl.com/

It supports an optional &callback=foo to add a function wrapper around  
the JSON.  Also, importantly, it's returning a whole bundle of  
knuggets for the given document, and every knugget is identified  
individually, like the main document one would be:
	http://re.search.wikia.com/do/factory?url=http://perl.com/#doc

Anyway, wanted to put this out quick to wake up the list, and that  
there should be a steady stream of updates as both the demo factory  
improves and there's some demo collector/CQ and broker work done to  
accompany it :)

Jer




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