[Sugar-devel] GetBooks Offline Support

Tony Anderson tony_anderson at usa.net
Tue Jul 19 06:43:10 EDT 2016 

Hi, Utkarsh

First, I would test the server. Put a simple index.html file in the 
server/ directory:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>test</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>TEST</h1>
</body>
</html>

See that this displays in your browser at

http://127.0.0.1:8000/server/index.html

This will ensure the directory permissions are ok that the html server 
is working.

If that is ok, then the error message. Usually, I grep for something 
like 'error downloading' to see where the error message originates.

I assume that the get-books.cfg shows the collection in the combobox on 
the toolbar and that clicking on that shows the categories you have 
defined.

By the way: I assume htmlf is a typo. Also you are probably running 
SimpleHTTPServer in a command line window. This window should show any 
error messages. Since the base code is python, you can also add print 
statements which will appear in the window (stdout).

Tony

On 07/19/2016 11:50 AM, Ütkarsh Tiwari wrote:
> 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*) 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 
> <mailto: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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>
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