Re: First web interface and service API draft

From: Christian Meder <chris@absolutegiganten.org>
Date: Apr 22, 2005, 13:44 UTC
Message-ID: <1114177468.3233.55.camel@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <4268F027.6030304@eldiablo.co.uk>

On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 13:37 +0100, El Draper wrote:

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> Christian Meder wrote:
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> >Comments ? Ideas ? Other feedback ?
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> Hi guys,
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> New around these parts, so be gentle :-)
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> I would like to suggest the idea of a SOAP interface. If we are talking 
> about a true service orientated API, then a way of calling a uri and 
> having it return a nice SOAP packet with the return data in it would be 
> great. If we ensured compliance with web service standards, then it 
> would then mean anyone could write themselves a client desktop based 
> program, a web interface, or any utility command line tools (in Java, 
> .net, whatever they want, and for whatever platform), that could 
> communicate with the web service and retrieve relevant data. You'd then 
> have a true service interface into a Git repository. Seeing as how the 
> idea of returning XML has already come up, I don't think it would be a 
> stretch to extend the web interface to returning web service compliant 
> SOAP packets in order to return data.

Ok, I should've known we get into this being a Web Java guy by profession ;-)

Right now I'd like to concentrate more on a RESTful approach http://www.xfront.com/REST-Web-Services.html

I'm concentrating on getting a clean and simple API for mere mortals and developers alike. SOAP is likely further down on my list. But I certainly will take patches ;-)

			Christian

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