[#7528] - News Feed not working in 3.4
- Closed
- 6 Apr 2016
- Medium
- Build: master
- # 7528
Steps to reproduce the issue
Create a new Newsfeed
Components>Newsfeeds>Feeds Create New
Use the following newsfeed link: http://feeds.feedburner.com/GoogleAppsUpdates?format=rss
Create New Menu Item>Newsfeed>Single Newsfeed. Select the previously created feed.
View the newly created menu item
Expected result
Should pull the feed the way it is pulled in a 2.5 site like the following:
http://new25.cloudaccess.host/index.php/news
Actual result
Creates a list of links like the following:
http://new30.cloudaccess.host/index.php/news
Each of those links results in a blank page with the following in the url:
tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5817251852531867331.post-8534696159248712488
System information (as much as possible)
Windows 7 Professional Service Pack 1
Intell Core i5-3210M CPU @ 2.5GHz
RAM 4GB
64-bit Operating System
Additional comments
This has been tested and works fine on 2.5. It semi worked on 3.0 taking you directly to the link: http://feeds.feedburner.com/GoogleAppsUpdates?format=rss rather than pulling in the feed.
I then upgraded and tested on a 3.2.7 site and this is when the feed broke. As far as I can tell, 3.2.7 is when this feature broke.
Votes
http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2FGoogleAppsUpdates%3Fformat%3Drss shows the feed as valid, but has a lot of recommendations for improving interoperability.
Interesting enough it shows the feed as an Atom 1.0 feed despite the URL indicating requesting an RSS feed.
I guess it's related to those things somehow.
First of all, the parser has been completely redone since Joomla 2.5. We used SimplePie back then.
Now, the issue with Atom is that each entry has two fields which are relevant for us: content and summary. Now this particular feed does not have a summary, it only has content.
The atom parser (JFeedParserAtom) relies on "summary" to get its content - which IMHO is wrong.
Substitute summary with content and it will work. But this looks like an backward incompatible change to me.
https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/blob/staging/libraries/joomla/feed/parser/atom.php#L202
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| Category | Components | ⇒ | Libraries |
| Priority | Urgent | ⇒ | Medium |
| Status | New | ⇒ | Confirmed |
| Build | master | ⇒ | staging |
Definitely working on 2.5.28 and not working on the upgraded version of same site on 3.4.3
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I would love for this to get fixed because I have multiple websites without RSS feeds right now :/ In the meantime could somebody tell me what the file path is to find the RSS Feed/Syndicate files because I migrated a site from 2.5 to 3.3.4 a few weeks ago and that RSS feed is still working. I would love to look and see what the differences are between the two files to see if I could create a fix.
Valentin linked the file above and also the reason why it fails.
After 6 months without any activity I am closing this at this time.
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| Status | Confirmed | ⇒ | Closed |
| Closed_Date | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 | ⇒ | 2016-04-06 11:20:16 |
| Closed_By | ⇒ | brianteeman |
A lack of activity is not a resolution. This thread should remain open until the issue is resolved.
If an issue was not solved in 6 months it shows that this issue is not that important for the community.
If this issue is important for you, feel free to propose a solution and submit a Pull Request for testing. Keeping tons of issues opened is not a solution. It just makes the bug fixing process harder to manage.
I don't see any relationship between the amount of time an issue remains unsolved and it's importance.
I would propose a solution if I was a coder (I'm not).
This bug prevents feeds from displaying properly on many websites (ours included).
It was working until a Joomla update broke it.
I need it fixed or I need to drastically modify our site.
@dougba This issue is almost one year old and this shows that there are not enough people affected by this. If you feel strong about an issue and want to get it fixed, hire a Joomla! developer to fix it.
Meanwhile, since I have already invested some time in this, let us try to solve it. I have a solution for this. Check my comment from Jul 24, 2015.
If you think you can answer my question, I am willing to submit a patch to be tested.
I can confirm newsfeeds have issues as described above with that feed
I tested with http://feeds.joomla.org/JoomlaAnnouncements and it worked perfectly