[Sugar-devel] GetBooks Offline Support

[Ütkarsh Tiwari]

Hi,
   I created a folder in my home directory by the name *'server'* , put all
the extracted book collections inside it and start a localhost server
with *'python
-m SimpleHTTPServer'* .
I then added that bookcollection url ( in my case it was -
*http://127.0.0.1:8000/server/en-ck12/index.htmlf
<http://127.0.0.1:8000/server/en-ck12/index.htmlf>*) to one of the already
available book genres in *get-books.cfg* .

On clicking that genre I get this error message - '*There was an error
downloading the list*.'

Regards,
Utkarsh Tiwari

On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 2:50 PM, Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at usa.net>
wrote:

> Hi, Utkarsh
>
> I am not sure what question you are asking.
>
> Looking at the code: the repositories seem to be defined in get-books.cfg.
>
> The actual mechanics of accessing the network appears to be handled by
> 'feedparse', which is a python module described at
> https://pythonhosted.org/feedparser/introduction.html.
>
> What are you trying to do and what is your problem with it? Did you add a
> repository to get-books.cfg? DId it show up as you expected in the
> toolbar widget? What happens if you select it? Does it show the catalogs
> you entered? What happens if you select a catalog? Does it show a list of
> books?
> What happens when you click on a book - does it get downloaded to the
> Journal?
>
> My suggestion is to add Rachel as an online repository getting the books
> from its site as a first step. Once that is working, changing the urls to
> local should be easier to test since you would already know what to expect.
> http://rachelfriends.org/previews/rachelplus/modules/en-ebooks/index.html
> is the site for Gutenberg. Each of the links on that page could be a
> catalog. Then clicking on one to show the list of books in the right panel.
>
> Tony
>
>
> On 07/19/2016 08:23 AM, Ütkarsh Tiwari wrote:
>
> Hi,
>     I am working on this feature of adding offline support to GetBooks
> activity to allow users to connect to schoolservers for offline
> books(stored on these servers) support. I am not able to figure out what
> modifications I need to make in the parsing technique of the activity in
> order to fetch(probably via localhost server) the books from Gutenberg,
> Rachel collections which I have already downloaded onto my harddisk.
>
> Could anyone here please point me in the right direction?
>
> --
> Regards,
> Ütkarsh Tiwari
>
>
>
>
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Regards,
Ütkarsh Tiwari
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