Atom Syndication Format

What is Atom?

Atom is an XML Document that describe list of related information known as feeds.

What is feed?

Feed is a collection of entries each with an extensible set of attached metadata.

Example

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
  <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3062500619105519975</id>
  <updated>2016-12-16T09:38:32.994Z</updated>
  <title type="text">java tutorial : Blog to learn java programming</title>
  <subtitle type="text">Learners Blog</subtitle>
  <link href="https://self-learning-java-tutorial.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed" type="application/atom+xml" title="" hreflang="" length="0"/>
  <link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3062500619105519975/posts/default?alt=atom" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" title="" hreflang="" length="0"/>
  <author>
    <name>hari krishna</name>
    <email>noreply@blogger.com</email>
    <uri></uri>
  </author>
  <entry>
    <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3062500619105519975.post-918659526208416960</id>
    <published>2016-12-16T09:38:33.018Z</published>
    <title type="text">SWT: Slider</title>
    <content type="html">Slider class is used to define Slider widget</content>
  </entry>
</feed>

Following code generates above feed. I am using Abdera library to work with atom protocol.

HelloWorld.java

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Date;

import org.apache.abdera.Abdera;
import org.apache.abdera.model.Content.Type;
import org.apache.abdera.model.Entry;
import org.apache.abdera.model.Feed;
import org.apache.abdera.model.Text;
import org.apache.abdera.writer.Writer;

public class HelloWorld {

 private static void addMetaData(Feed feed) {
  feed.setId("tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3062500619105519975");
  feed.setUpdated(new Date());
  feed.setTitle("java tutorial : Blog to learn java programming");
  feed.setSubtitle("Learners Blog");
 }

 private static void addLinksToFeed(Feed feed) {
  /* Adding Links */
  String rel = "http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed";
  String type = "application/atom+xml";
  String href = "https://self-learning-java-tutorial.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default";
  String title = "";
  String hreflang = "";
  long length = 0;

  feed.addLink(href, rel, type, title, hreflang, length);

  rel = "self";
  type = "application/atom+xml";
  href = "http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3062500619105519975/posts/default?alt=atom";

  feed.addLink(href, rel, type, title, hreflang, length);
 }

 private static void addAuthorToFeed(Feed feed) {
  String name = "hari krishna";
  String email = "noreply@blogger.com";

  feed.addAuthor(name, email, "");
 }

 private static void addEntry(Feed feed) {

  Entry entry = feed.addEntry();
  entry.setId("tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3062500619105519975.post-918659526208416960");
  entry.setPublished(new Date());
  entry.setTitle("SWT: Slider", Text.Type.TEXT);

  entry.setContent("Slider class is used to define Slider widget", Type.HTML);

  feed.addEntry(entry);
 }

 public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException {
  Abdera abdera = new Abdera();

  /* Create a new Feed instance. */
  Feed feed = abdera.newFeed();

  /* Populate feed */
  addMetaData(feed);
  addLinksToFeed(feed);
  addAuthorToFeed(feed);
  addEntry(feed);

  /* Print the feed to console */
  Writer writer = abdera.getWriterFactory().getWriter("prettyxml");
  feed.writeTo(writer, System.out);
 }
}

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