[BangPypers] BeautifulSoup in Jython required in Java faced Problem

[Anand Chitipothu]

2011/10/11 Subhodip Biswas <subhodipbiswas at gmail.com>:
> Hi all,
>
> I wrote few codes in Jython for reading xmls. Everything was working
> fine until one fine day my client asks for a java interoperability.
> I dig up the internet and landed up here:
> http://jythonpodcast.hostjava.net/jythonbook/en/1.0/JythonAndJavaIntegration.html
> This is however is not the problem. The problem is I used
> beautifulsoup because of b0rked XML responses. Considering that for
> different request there will be different response which in turn(in
> beautifulsoup) results in something like ns#:somename (where # is a
> number and Some name is a node name). I will be lost with random
> combinations every time a different response comes.
>
> One way of thinking is to generalize the beautifulsoup code(but will
> face the problem above) and then use the Java Jython patching.
> Another way is to use something else similar to Beautifulsoup (e.g.
> JSoup maybe).
>
> Beautiful soup is powerful and I am helpless. Please help with your
> thoughts and ideas.

You can take the BeautifulSoup.py and compile it to .class file and
put it in a jar. That should allow you to use it from Java with ease.

Anand