--- Log opened Sun Aug 07 00:00:46 2011
20:41 < mcallan> conseo: are you able to use the Java api, or am i wrong about it being "simpler" in your case
21:19 < conseo> mcallan: what do you mean?
21:21 < conseo> oh, i see
21:22 < conseo> i can trigger the java api, but i am still trying to find out how to do it. i then need to create a pollserver object in the scraper and thought that fetching all the data is easier, but the json api does neither expose the usernames nor the pollname
21:23 < conseo> simply opening the linked diff-url opens the bridge web output containing everything except the pollname
21:24 < conseo> since this is all that is necessary the scraper could be well seperated best with a json api likely
21:25 < conseo> but wait i will test and see
21:55 < mcallan> ok. you probably know, but creating a pollserver (vote-server) is very expensive.  that's legacy code and no longer a good design.  you will create it once ofc, and reuse it
22:03 < mcallan> (and ofc i'll extend the web api for u, if the java api isn't a good fit)
22:10 < conseo> mcallan: thx, i am still new to this tool and i can't judge how well it fits until i have it once running, so i don't want to bother you with it.
22:10 < conseo> the debug output of beanshell is not very helpful, but at least it is funny this time:
22:11 < conseo> Exception in thread "main" org.webharvest.exception.ScriptException: Error during script execution: Parse error at line 1, column 2.  Encountered: consensus
22:11 < conseo> :-D
22:12 < conseo> not to speak of xml and xslt (of even only xpath) which seems to be pretty complex but very useful to gather data from xml/html content
22:12 < conseo> have you ever used it?
22:17 < mcallan> lol  yes i've used some of that stuff way back when, and i recall it was tough getting used to a functional language, after coding so long in a procedural one
22:21 < conseo> but you used lisp for emacs development, didn't you?
22:26 < mcallan> yes, a little.  lisp is somewhat procedural... almost entirely so in my clumsy hands :-)
22:35 < conseo> :-)
--- Log closed Mon Aug 08 00:00:01 2011