[Koha-devel] RFC: /svc/ API

[David Cook]

Hi Jonathan:

Thanks. I'll keep that in mind. We might need to use it for a certain project, so that's good to know.

I'm a bit wary of using third-party software for Koha that we don’t maintain ourselves though :/. Is there any chance that BibLibre might be looking to merge the code into the community codebase?

David Cook
Systems Librarian
Prosentient Systems
72/330 Wattle St, Ultimo, NSW 2007

-----Original Message-----
From: druartjonathan at gmail.com [mailto:druartjonathan at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Jonathan Druart
Sent: Wednesday, 23 July 2014 6:14 PM
To: David Cook
Cc: Petter Goksøyr Åsen; koha-devel at lists.koha-community.org
Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] RFC: /svc/ API

2014-07-23 5:03 GMT+02:00 David Cook <dcook at prosentient.com.au>:

Hi David,

> I only heard of BibLibre's "koha-restful" recently. I didn't 
> thoroughly review the code, but it appears that it only uses IP-based 
> authentication at the moment. I think it was missing all the 
> functionality that I desired as well, so I decided not to use it.

BibLibre wrote koha-restful to fix the lack of possibilities IDS-DI can provide.
We are highly open-minded to contributions (merge request, patches, etc.), if you find some time :) If you want to add features, you can send us a patch at dev_patches AT biblibre DOT com

You can find more information about it into README file and opac/rest.pl documentation on http://git.biblibre.com.

Cheers,
Jonathan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Petter Goksøyr Åsen 
> [mailto:petter.goksoyr.asen at kul.oslo.kommune.no]
> Sent: Wednesday, 23 July 2014 12:11 PM
> To: David Cook
> Subject: SV: [Koha-devel] RFC: /svc/ API
>
>
> David Cook wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I agree. We should think twice before breaking existing integrations 
> and workflows.
>
> I am also interested to hear peoples opinions about Koha's HTTP APIs 
> in
> general:
> - do you want them expanded? for what use cases?
> - and more importantly: should Koha's templates make use of i'ts own APIs?
>
> My library certainly think this could be a fruitful direction for Koha 
> to go, and want to help make it happen. But if there is no big 
> interest in the community in this approach, we'll more likely to fork 
> and/or contribute to Biblibre's koha-restful instead of patching the svc and ILS-DI APIs.
>
> Regards,
> Petter Goksøyr Åsen
> Deichmanske bibliotek / Oslo Public Library
>
>
>
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