Closed zekiel closed 9 years ago
Recently (March 18, 2014), Java SE 8 was released. It's docs are online, can we change this to Java SE 8 Docs?
@cptaffe indeed! Thanks for the heads up--I missed that.
@zekiel happy to help.
Anyone working on this? As a java developer and DDG user I get a lot of java instant answers, but it really feels odd to get URLs pointing to JDK 6 now...
I'm willing to help, but I did not yet work on anything DDG related, so it would be nice if someone could give some links so I can get started. :smile:
@MoriTanosuke Consider yourself in charge!
I suspect the place to start looking is in the module's share directory. The data_url
and fetch.sh
files appear to have some hard-coded references to 6.
If I know anything about software development, I suspect there will be problems with the parse.py
script, as well. Feel free to ping @jdorweiler or myself if you get stuck.
Thank you for your interest!
@MoriTanosuke I forgot to mention the more general Fathead developer documentation. The Fathead coverage can be a bit sparse, although @elebow has done some recent valuable updates.
We (@moollaza and myself, in particular) would love to hear about how they can be improved, if you have some time to let us know.
@mwmiller Thanks for the info. I'll try to update the scripts for JDK8.
I started working on this in my fork at https://github.com/MoriTanosuke/zeroclickinfo-fathead I'm not familiar with Python, so it will be slow going, but at least I can produce a first line in output.txt
with the class name and the description.
I want to use BeautifulSoup for the HTML parsing stuff, like the README.txt mentions already. Is that available where the Fathead is executed?
@MoriTanosuke We also have fatheads written in Perl, Javascript, and Ruby. What really matters is format of the output.txt file. BeautifulSoup is fine to use though.
Just created the PR. If there is anything missing, please tell me and I'll update it.
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/