Feeds Processor

A Feeds Processor plugin for Message would look vaguely like the Taxonomy Processor.

Additional pieces I missed before thinking this through further--a Message Argument Mapper and a Message Feeds Source Realm plugin.

Here's what I imagine the backbone of an ActivityStream-like use case to be:

• A module sets up a message type plugin for each desired source.
• Feeds pulls the RSS feed for each source. The source URL is used to route to the message type.
• A new Feeds Mapper extracts values parsed from the Feed and assigns them as message arguments. A callback hook simplifies this, as argument mapping is a fairly standardized mapping to pursue.
• Realm is set to User & Source.
• Processor saves the message based on the mapped message object.

To truly match ActivityStream, you would also want Feeds to have a user-friendly interface for users to sign up for a Feed via their account page. IIRC, the current options are to be a Feeds administrator or create a node.

Is this any clearer?

I'm working through the creation of an initial processor. I haven't looked at Entities or the new DB layer yet, so it's a bit slow going.

I'm having a little trouble understanding what's become of Realms and how to play with this, an update to the example module (in the 7.x branch but still 6.x code) would be helpful.

I looked over there, and that is clearly the right approach to take for Message. As I posted though, it doesn't seem to work for me.