[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Evergreen API

2012-05-14 Thread Vyacheslav Tykhonov
Hi all, In my opinion it will be nice to have API that looking like SOLR API that is good enough for building new applications as statistics reports, aggregation/export/import data, etc. At the moment API published on commidore64.esilibrary.com contains completely the same information as in

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Evergreen API

2012-05-14 Thread Mike Rylander
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 6:01 AM, Vyacheslav Tykhonov v...@iisg.nl wrote: Hi all, In my opinion it will be nice to have API that looking like SOLR API that is good enough for building new applications as statistics reports, aggregation/export/import data, etc. At the moment API published on

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Evergreen API

2012-05-14 Thread rogan . hamby
To echo Dan, and without reading ahead to the weekend's posts, developers usually talk about APIs in terms of methods of accessing the functions of a system. Usually, the APIs are bundled and published because the core system is closed in some way or licensing is involved. If you want

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Evergreen API

2012-05-14 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
Thanks, All. I know we don't need APIs in the same sense that a proprietary system does. However, I've spoken to some developers of other products who are interested in integrating their product with Evergreen and I keep hearing that this is very challenging because it isn't clear what does what

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Evergreen API

2012-05-14 Thread Jeff Davis
On 2012-05-14 08:30AM, Mike Rylander wrote: Better documentation would indeed be ideal, but (to use your example) the functionality to do things like extracting a specific substring from the leader and then searching on that (in the OPAC or SQL-ish sense) is available today, purely via

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Evergreen API

2012-05-14 Thread Mike Rylander
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Jeff Davis jda...@sitka.bclibraries.ca wrote: On 2012-05-14 08:30AM, Mike Rylander wrote: Better documentation would indeed be ideal, but (to use your example) the functionality to do things like extracting a specific substring from the leader and then

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Evergreen API

2012-05-11 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
Hi Devs and Community, Has there ever been serious consideration given to developing an Evergreen API? And if not, why not? I'm just wondering if that might be something that we could make happen as a community, perhaps with funds we raise through some clever activity or by selling some groovy

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Evergreen API

2012-05-11 Thread Dan Scott
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 07:18:09PM -0700, Lori Bowen Ayre wrote: Hi Devs and Community, Has there ever been serious consideration given to developing an Evergreen API? And if not, why not? I'm just wondering if that might be something that we could make happen as a community, perhaps