[Koha-devel] Access to Koha API
Joshua Ferraro
jmf at liblime.com
Sun Nov 26 21:44:54 CET 2006
On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 12:27:43PM +1300, Alex King wrote:
> Following on from my last email, I wonder if any thought has been given
> to exposing the Koha API to other external programs? It seems to me
> that there is a separation between the web-UI and library functions (in
> modules/C4) already, and of course there are command line scripts which
> use the library functions. (Library could be ambiguous in this context,
> I mean in the programming sense).
>
> Has any thought been given to exporting these functions via XML-RPC or
> some other RPC or web services type of interface? This would allow me
> to write my scripts in python, as well as other tools and possibly UIs
> to be written separately from the main Koha code. Thoughts?
This is a great idea, and I'm 100% behind it. One problem we're facing
is that the API itself needs to be defined ;-). There's been some effort
to do that in rel_3_0, but not nearly enough time has been devoted to
the problem. As a project, it's a question we have discussed in the past
-- the developers are mainly working for companies who's source of
income comes from libraries who need new features or help with
implementation -- but no library wants to sponsor 'clean up' or 'project
maintenance' and none of the developers have the resources (we're all
small companies with shallow pockets). :-)
So ... in short, yes, we'd love to pursue this idea, but who's going to
do the work ;-)
Cheers,
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