We should do as we usually do: set a new context for URIs (/rest/ ?) and implement a RESTfull API there, following all the standards, and versioned from the beggining. We could use CGI::Application::Dispatch, merge koha-restfull and work on top of that (it should be discussed whether we agree on the current API or not), or even do it with a framework, like Dancer [1]. And then have a clear deprecation path for the old API. Would be happy to work on that if more people were interested. [1] http://irc.koha-community.org/koha/2014-07-18#i_1538096 On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 9:21 PM, David Cook <dcook@prosentient.com.au> wrote:
Ah, right you are, Galen. It does use a socket. Yeah, that should be trivial to update connexion_import_daemon.pl.
None of our folks use OCLC, but that's good to know.
Going back to my earlier email, MarcEdit would probably benefit from a richer Koha API as well.
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-----Original Message----- From: Galen Charlton [mailto:gmc@esilibrary.com] Sent: Thursday, 24 July 2014 1:22 AM To: David Cook Cc: koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] RFC: /svc/ API
Hi,
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 5:11 PM, David Cook <dcook@prosentient.com.au> wrote:
+1 to a versioned API. I don't think that I use it for anything at the moment, but I'm not 100% sure about all our apps. I think we might have a third-party one that uses it.
Also +1 to a versioned API.
This script should probably also use PUT, but I have no idea if OCLC Connexion supports that.
I don't believe it matters as far as Connexion is concerned, as it only talks to connexion_import_daemon.pl via a raw socket.
Since there are an indeterminate number of third-party software systems using the existing API, I'd recommend versioning and using v2 to handle things more RESTfully.
MarcEdit is one program I know that uses the current API to inject records into a Koha database.
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