FeedBlock

All Superinterfaces:

BaseAsset, Block, FolderContainedAsset, MetadataAwareAsset, NamedAsset, PermissionsCapableAsset
```
public interface FeedBlock
extends Block
```
Represents a Feed Block asset.

Since:

4.7

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`java.lang.String`	`getFeed()`
`org.jdom.Element`	`getFeedAsXMLElement()`	Fetches the feed from the URL as XML element instead of String.
`java.lang.String`	`getFeedURL()`	Get the URL of the XML feed this block will aggregate.
`void`	`setFeedURL(java.lang.String feedURL)`	Set the URL of the XML feed this block will aggregate.

Methods inherited from interface com.hannonhill.cascade.api.asset.common.BaseAsset
getAssetId, getAssetType, getIdentifer

Methods inherited from interface com.hannonhill.cascade.api.asset.home.Block
getBlockType

Methods inherited from interface com.hannonhill.cascade.api.asset.home.FolderContainedAsset
getCreatedBy, getCreatedOn, getFolderOrder, getIdentifier, getLastModified, getLastModifiedBy, getParentFolder, getParentFolderIdentifier, getPath, getSite, getSiteId, getSiteName, getTags, isHideSystemName, setHideSystemName, setParentFolder, setParentFolderIdentifier

Methods inherited from interface com.hannonhill.cascade.api.asset.home.MetadataAwareAsset
getLabel, getLinkingAssets, getMetadata, getMetadataSet, getMetadataSetId

Methods inherited from interface com.hannonhill.cascade.api.asset.common.NamedAsset
getName, setName

Methods inherited from interface com.hannonhill.cascade.api.asset.common.PermissionsCapableAsset
isCurrentUserCanRead, isCurrentUserCanWrite, isUserCanRead, isUserCanWrite

- Method Detail
  - getFeedURL
```
java.lang.String getFeedURL()
```
    Get the URL of the XML feed this block will aggregate.
    
    Returns:
    
    the URL of the XML feed this block aggregates
  - setFeedURL
```
void setFeedURL(java.lang.String feedURL)
```
    Set the URL of the XML feed this block will aggregate.
    
    Parameters:
    
    feedURL - the URL of an XML feed
  - getFeed
```
java.lang.String getFeed()
```
    Returns:
    
    Fetches the feed from the URL. Will return null if feedURL is empty or it can't connect to given URL. Returns null if the fetched contents were not valid XML. Will strip any XML declarations, doctypes etc.
  - getFeedAsXMLElement
```
org.jdom.Element getFeedAsXMLElement()
                              throws java.lang.Exception
```
    Fetches the feed from the URL as XML element instead of String. The returned Element will always be system-xml element containing the actual XML as its children.
    
    Returns:
    
    Throws:
    
    java.lang.Exception