[Koha-devel] RFC: /svc/ API

[Julian Maurice]

We at BibLibre wrote koha-restful as a third-party application to be 
able to extend it quickly.
Now that things are more stable (the last commit was written a month 
ago), I would be happy to submit a patch to integrate koha-restful into 
Koha.
But IMO it lacks a decent identification/authentication system before it 
could be integrated. So if someone is interested to work on that, he is 
welcome :)

Le 24/07/2014 02:30, Tomas Cohen Arazi a écrit :
> 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 at 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.
>>
>> David Cook
>> Systems Librarian
>> Prosentient Systems
>> 72/330 Wattle St, Ultimo, NSW 2007
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Galen Charlton [mailto:gmc at esilibrary.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, 24 July 2014 1:22 AM
>> To: David Cook
>> Cc: koha-devel at lists.koha-community.org
>> Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] RFC: /svc/ API
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 5:11 PM, David Cook <dcook at 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.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Galen
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