Maciej Lizewski created CONNECTORS-727:
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Summary: generic connector
Key: CONNECTORS-727
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CONNECTORS-727
Project: ManifoldCF
Issue Type: Improvement
Reporter: Maciej Lizewski
Assignee: Maciej Lizewski
OK, this is tricky, but really nice idea. I was thinking about indexing some
sources which do not have API, or API does not provide information needed by
Manifold, or there is dedicated system and IT team that can easily add some
API.
Now you have to write dedicated connector and probably some API extension,
plugin, etc that would talk with each other to provide seeds, versions and
documents. Which requires knowledge on how to write Manifold connectors AND
knowledge about system - there is no so many programmers that know both systems
:)
So lets make things easier - provide "generic" Manifold connector that works
with "generic" API (ie XML over HTTP which is *really* easy to implement in any
language). This API and protocol are strictly defined and specified. Then to
integrate with the custom document repository one has to only implement API
entry point which follow those specifications.
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