File applications/examples/views/generic.rss artifact f16be9a903 part of check-in a162dcef14

{{
###
# response._vars contains the dictionary returned by the controller action
# for this to work the action must return something like
#
#   dict(title=...,link=...,description=...,created_on='...',items=...)
#
# items is a list of dictionaries each with title, link, description, pub_date.
###
try:
   from gluon.serializers import rss   
   response.write(rss(response._vars), escape=False)
   response.headers['Content-Type'] = 'application/rss+xml'
except (TypeError, ValueError):
	raise HTTP(405, 'RSS serialization error')
except ImportError:
	raise HTTP(405, 'RSS not available')
except:
	raise HTTP(405, 'RSS error')
}}