SFDC and RSS Integration Code Challenge

Project Overview

This challenge should integrate Salesforce Community with RSS feeds.

Competition Tasks

This challange will get RSS feeds and post them to a community.

User type should be Admin User.

Here's a UI Mockup:

Notices

• Use the prefix "PRO_" for names of Apex, Visualforce and custom settings
• Use the prefix "AAA_" for custom object names
• You can use the default or minimum UI.  We will apply the final UI on our own

Details

• Admin users can register RSS URLs, RSS1.0, 2.0 and ATOM must be supported.
• The following options should be supported for each URL.
  • target (all, or keywords)
  • include keywords (Up to 10 keywords can be set, and you need to test with keywords including some DBCS characters)
  • exclude keywords (Up to 10 keywords can be set, and you need to test with keywords including some DBCS characters)
  • attibutes (title and link are mandatory.  you can add other attirbutes like description)
  • chatter topic name (RSS name by default)
  • community ID to post
  • Maximum number of posts to import in a single run. 
• The batch runs hourly to fetch RSS's and post the items to the salesforce community
• Each feedItem should be associated with a chatter topic    
• Other attribute values which are enabled in the setting should be stored in a feed's body    
• Import all items in RSS if it runs for the first time (the last fetch datetime is NULL)
• Store the last fetch datetime in the setting record of each RSS
• You may not register some of the feeds depending on the include and exclude keyword settings��� Import items only which have 'include keywords' but not 'exclude keywords'
• If any exception happens in getting and registering contents, post it as a FeedItem of the admin user for internal use (which should be set in a custom setting) 

Performance

• We expect high performance for the implementation.

Tests

• Your Apex classes must be well tested.

Technology Overview

• Salesforce
• RSS / ATOM

Resources

You may want to use some code snippet like rss parsing from https://ap.salesforce.com/packaging/installPackage.apexp?p0=04ti00000006uPu

Final Submission Guidelines

Submission Deliverables

• Zipped Source, package.xml and SFDC dev org, You should prepare your own SFDC environment
• Apex (Including test classes), please provide us your test site information (id/password) for test. You may want to register a new one so you don't have to share your own developer account
• Visualforce
• Custom objects
• Some RSS URLs you tested. You need to test with RSS including some DBCS characters
• A deployment guide with instructions to setup and test your submission

Final Submission

For each member, the final submission should be uploaded to the Online Review Tool.