A WebHook named ‘Jeff’


 

Jeff as a webhook

Jeff as a webhook

PROBLEM: Help people understand how cool webhooks are.
PROBLEM: Find out when there’s new content on a site.

SOLUTION: Put a webhook into the site’s search indexing tool – SOLR.
SOLUTION: Custom SOLR Token Filter.

The code, while JAVA and therefore evil, is trivial.

The code, while JAVA and therefore evil, is trivial.

 

 

 

WHY?

Every cool web app (sooner or later) has some cool content in it. So you add a search engine. When your users want to build mashups with that content, you add webhooks to that engine. And you’re done.

Webhooks hitting a remote server, shown in Apache log.
Starting point: http://e-mats.org/2008/06/writing-a-solr-analysis-filter-plugin/

GOTCHAS:
JAVA – Evil and Stupid
Java classpath (on Mac) – also Evil and Stupid
Java permissions (to connect to remote servers) – http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5309619

WHERE IS THIS GOING TO LIVE?

 

Webhooks coming to NASA soon...

Webhooks coming to NASA soon...

 

FINAL TAKEAWAY: Fitz was right – everything should be HTTP.

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  1. #1 by medelabackpack on 07Jun09 - 7:10 am

    You must have been missing something as my husband just successfully got through the downloading and all!

    Donna

  2. #2 by Studio photography on 09Jun09 - 5:08 pm

    Norwich Photographer covering Commercial, Studio and Advertising Photography.

  3. #3 by Studio photography on 10Jun09 - 11:59 am

    just install it, and when you are im with a friend click on cam,it will only work with one person, cause i have used it like that in the past, it just allows that one person.. it'a not like with yahoo im anyone can see up to like 30 people i think..

  4. #4 by progrium on 20Aug09 - 12:52 am

    I am a webhook.

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