From 057769eeb5bdea8c48ebbe55aa905d037a774a28 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jim teeuwen <jimteeuwen@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 12:52:37 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Rename "examples" folder to "testdata". This causes "go
 install" to ignore it when building the lib. Example binaries do not get
 installed in $GOBIN this way. They do not belong there.

---
 testdata/example.go | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 testdata/example.go

diff --git a/testdata/example.go b/testdata/example.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..57bc772
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testdata/example.go
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+package main
+
+/*
+This is a minimal sample application, demonstrating how to set up an RSS feed
+for regular polling of new channels/items.
+
+Build & run with:
+
+ $ 6g example.go && 6l example.6 && ./6.out
+
+*/
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	rss "github.com/jteeuwen/go-pkg-rss"
+	"os"
+	"time"
+)
+
+func main() {
+	// This sets up a new feed and polls it for new channels/items.
+	// Invoke it with 'go PollFeed(...)' to have the polling performed in a
+	// separate goroutine, so you can continue with the rest of your program.
+	PollFeed("http://blog.case.edu/news/feed.atom", 5)
+}
+
+func PollFeed(uri string, timeout int) {
+	feed := rss.New(timeout, true, chanHandler, itemHandler)
+
+	for {
+		if err := feed.Fetch(uri, nil); err != nil {
+			fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "[e] %s: %s", uri, err)
+			return
+		}
+
+		<-time.After(time.Duration(feed.SecondsTillUpdate() * 1e9))
+	}
+}
+
+func chanHandler(feed *rss.Feed, newchannels []*rss.Channel) {
+	fmt.Printf("%d new channel(s) in %s\n", len(newchannels), feed.Url)
+}
+
+func itemHandler(feed *rss.Feed, ch *rss.Channel, newitems []*rss.Item) {
+	fmt.Printf("%d new item(s) in %s\n", len(newitems), feed.Url)
+}