UrbanDictionary Plugin

Added by Yuen-Chi Lian, last edited by James Mortimer on Dec 03, 2006  (view change)
Name UrbanDictionary Macro
Version 1.0
Status Beta
Author(s) Yuen-Chi Lian
Homepage UrbanDictionary Plugin
Price Free
License Open Source (BSD)
Download JAR yuenchi.confluence.plugin.urban-1.0b1.jar
Download Source yuenchi.confluence.plugin.urban-1.0b1-src.tar.gz

Description/Features

Simple plugin with macros which obtain definition(s) from Urban Dictionary via SOAP.

Requirements

Usage Notes

Currently, the supported macros are:

Name Description Body
urban-lookup Retrieves the definition of a term (word) from the UrbanDictionary database
urban-daily-definition Retrieves the definition of term of the day
urban-random-definition Retrieves the definition of a random term (1 per request/page)

Parameters

These are the supported parameters:

Name Description Value Sub-parameters urban-lookup urban-daily-definition urban-random-definition
author Returns the name of the author of this definition
definition Returns the definition of the term
example Returns the usage example(s) of the term
template Forces to use custom template for pretty rendering See Template section
url Returns the URL of the term title=name of the displaying hyperlink
target=_target/_new/etc.
useCache Uses cached record 0/1, true/false, yes/no
word Returns the term being looked up

Rendering

Plain Text Rendering

Plain text will be returned if one of these parameters is used: author, definition, example, url, word.

Pretty Rendering

Pretty rendering will be turned on if none of the Plain Text Rendering parameters is used. You can use the template parameter to specify the custom template for the rendering.

Template

The default template used for "pretty" rendering is "default", which is not required to be specified using the template parameter. You can add custom templates to this plugin by putting it under WEB-INF/classes/templates/plugins/urban with this naming pattern:

definition-$name.vm

For instance, to use a template named definition-fugly.vm in urban-lookup:

{urban-lookup:template=fugly}foobar{urban-lookup}

Examples

This example produces fancy things as you can see in the screenshot.

h3. {urban-lookup:word}mountain dew{urban-lookup}
|| Definition | {urban-lookup:definition}mountain dew{urban-lookup} |
|| Example | {urban-lookup:example}mountain dew{urban-lookup} |
|| Author | {urban-lookup:author}mountain dew{urban-lookup} |
|| URL | {urban-lookup:url|title=Click here to see more}mountain dew{urban-lookup} |

h4. Pretty
{urban-lookup}mountain dew{urban-lookup}

h3. Daily Definition: {urban-daily-definition:word}
|| Definition | {urban-daily-definition:definition} |
|| Example | {urban-daily-definition:example} |
|| Author | {urban-daily-definition:author} |
|| URL | {urban-daily-definition:url|title=Click here to see more} |

h4. Pretty
{urban-daily-definition:template=default}

h3. Random Definition: {urban-random-definition:word}
|| Definition | {urban-random-definition:definition} |
|| Example | {urban-random-definition:example} |
|| Author | {urban-random-definition:author} |
|| URL | {urban-random-definition:url|title=Click here to see more} |

h4. Pretty
{urban-random-definition:template=default}

Version History

Version Comment
1.0b Try it

Screenshots

Screenshots

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Comments (5)

 

  1. Nov 28, 2006

    Ivan Benko says:

    Nice work YuenChi! What about extending this and hooking it up with the babel fi...

    Nice work Yuen-Chi! What about extending this and hooking it up with the babel fish alta-vista translator? Then you could insert a translation of particular words as well!

    1. Nov 29, 2006

      Yuen-Chi Lian says:

      Hey Ivan, Thanks mate! Babelfish

      Hey Ivan,

      Thanks mate! Babelfish? Good idea.. hey, I will think about it. (:

      Now.. where to get the WSDL?

      yc

      1. Nov 29, 2006

        Yuen-Chi Lian says:

        http://www.xmethods.net/sd/2001/BabelFishService.wsdl yc

        http://www.xmethods.net/sd/2001/BabelFishService.wsdl

        yc

  2. Sep 28, 2007

    Brendan Patterson says:

    I think you forgot to distribute a package. I'm getting this error: Error forma...

    I think you forgot to distribute a package. I'm getting this error:

    Error formatting macro: urban-lookup: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: yuenchi/soap/urban/UrbanDictionarySoapClient

    1. Sep 28, 2007

      Yuen-Chi Lian says:

      Hi Brendan, Thanks for trying it out. The class is available in the yuenchi.soa...

      Hi Brendan,

      Thanks for trying it out. The class is available in the yuenchi.soap.urban-1.0.jar. See Requirements.

      yc