Address issue #394 (RSS feed)

[lzbj]

A package which can subscribe to RSS feed and generate events.

[markusthoemmes]

Note that this is "yet another action" which will run only for the maximum time of an action, which is 5 minutes currently. That won't be a suitable mechanism to provide an RSS feed which needs to generate events over days/weeks/months?

[rabbah]

This is the action, no installation etc? Is that intentional? Also, should this be part of openwhisk or its own rss whisk package?

[csantanapr]

This is an action, that tries to read from an rss feed? Like @markusthoemmes said this is an action that get's killed by the time it tries to do something.

I don't think this is the goal, the goal is to provide a way to provide a openwhisk feed that it's implemented as a long running deamon/app that users can create triggers with configurations options like the url, they want their trigger to be fire when there is a new rss item added to the rss feed.

[lzbj]

@markusthoemmes ,thank you. @rabbah, yes, correct, just a confirm of requirements. I'll add more implementations as commented by Carlos if I could. Now I'm more clear, Thank you.
@csantanapr , do you know if there is a sample you described that could create the daemon? for the github webhook.js seems delegate the job to github?

[csantanapr]

@lzbj We don't have examples or docs yet explaining this type of feeds, but we are working on getting them available.
See #559 it contains some background and initial draft for the docs.
Examples of deamon that implements a feed are things like alarm and cloudant changes, which should be in openwhisk soon #336 #390

[lzbj]

@csantanapr, thanks a lot.