Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
Hello,
Some of you may have noticed that a package 'Google APis' has been added
to FPC in subversion.
These contain the Google APIs as generated from the Google Discovery
Service (~70 APIS).
I am of the opinion that such Web APIs have meanwhile the same
importance as the native APIS that make up the desktop; the world is
increasingly connected to Internet, and Google, MS Office365 apis (and
many others) will become more and more part of the toolset of a programmer.
Are these really APIs, i.e. an interface between an application program
and a local library, or are they actually communication protocols?
https://xkcd.com/1481/ applies.
Perhaps FPC/Lazarus, which is already a large project, should package
things which take a URI as a parameter and return HTML/XML/JSON etc.
separately.
Also there's the risk that Google will change or discontinue a service
arbitrarily. They don't exactly have a good record in that area.
--
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
[Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]
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