finish up the atom news feed API

api/routes/admin.go

@@ -138,6 +138,8 @@ func PUT_AddNews(c *fiber.Ctx) error {
 		return util.ErrBadJSON(c)
 	}
 
+	news.Time = uint64(time.Now().Unix())
+
 	if !news.IsValid() {
 		return util.ErrBadReq(c)
 	}

api/routes/news.go

@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 package routes
 
 import (
+	"sort"
 	"strings"
+	"time"
 
 	"github.com/gofiber/fiber/v2"
 	"github.com/ngn13/website/api/config"
@@ -9,12 +11,31 @@ import (
 	"github.com/ngn13/website/api/util"
 )
 
+// feed_entry is a temporary struct used to pass the news to the news.xml
+type feed_entry struct {
+	Title   string
+	Author  string
+	Time    time.Time
+	RFC3339 string
+	Content string
+}
+
+// convert UNIX timestamp to RFC3339 (format used by atom feeds)
+func (e *feed_entry) From(news *database.News, lang string) {
+	e.Title = news.Title.Get(lang)
+	e.Author = news.Author
+	e.Time = time.Unix(int64(news.Time), 0)
+	e.RFC3339 = e.Time.Format(time.RFC3339)
+	e.Content = news.Content.Get(lang)
+}
+
 func GET_News(c *fiber.Ctx) error {
 	var (
-		news []database.News
-		n    database.News
-		feed []byte
-		err  error
+		entries []feed_entry
+		news    database.News
+		indx    uint64
+		feed    []byte
+		err     error
 	)
 
 	db := c.Locals("database").(*database.Type)
@@ -27,17 +48,25 @@ func GET_News(c *fiber.Ctx) error {
 	}
 
 	lang = strings.ToLower(lang)
+	indx = 0
 
-	for db.NewsNext(&n) {
-		if n.Supports(lang) {
-			news = append(news, n)
+	for db.NewsNext(&news) {
+		if news.Supports(lang) {
+			entries = append(entries, feed_entry{})
+			entries[indx].From(&news, lang)
+			indx++
 		}
 	}
 
+	sort.Slice(entries, func(i, j int) bool {
+		return entries[i].Time.Before(entries[j].Time)
+	})
+
 	if feed, err = util.Render("views/news.xml", fiber.Map{
 		"frontend": frontend,
+		"updated":  time.Now().Format(time.RFC3339),
+		"entries":  entries,
 		"lang":     lang,
-		"news":     news,
 	}); err != nil {
 		return util.ErrInternal(c, err)
 	}