[Sugar-devel] GetBooks Offline Support

[Tony Anderson]

Hi, Gonzalo

 From the code, GetBooks uses feedparser. Pathagar is a server while 
GetBooks is a client. In this case, Utkarsh is delivering the content by 
html. I think more testing is needed to see where the problem might be.

Thanks for your help,

Tony

On 07/19/2016 01:13 PM, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
> GetBooks get the list and the books using the OPDS protocol.
> Pathagar [1] is a book server who serves that protocol, and is (or 
> was) included in the school server.
> Pathagar has tools to import a directory of books in his own database,
> looks like you need work in the schoolserver to include Rachel and 
> gutemberg books
> in Pathagar.
> Then you only need add a new server in get-books.cfg
>
> Gonzalo
>
> [1] https://github.com/PathagarBooks/pathagar
>
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 6:50 AM, Ütkarsh Tiwari 
> <iamutkarshtiwari at gmail.com <mailto:iamutkarshtiwari at gmail.com>> 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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