Hmmm that is actually a good question, and to be honest I haven't really thought about this before :)
I guess theoretically you could lift the routing strings from ApiServlet and put the route => handler pairs in the configuration file, and thus adding a new custom route would be as simple as configuring a route + class to handle it (the autoloader should pick up on the class name no problem). that would take care of the routing / handler part, but then you'd also have to think of a clever way to re-work the in-&output converters, right now it's a class per format (xml, atom, json) with a function per conversion type (activity, person, app data).. you could however rework this to a class per type (route name), with a convert xml / atom / json functions, and thus being able to extend this dynamically too by depending on the autoloader again. Not a huge amount of code to realize I guess, if you feel motivated to code this up and submit a patch I'd be more then happy to accept it! (or otherwise put this suggestion on my overly long todo list, in which case i would suggest filing a ticket in our jira system: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/CreateIssue!default.jspa) Hope that's of some help! -- Chris On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 9:18 PM, Erik Gomersbach (Bluewin) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently looking at extending the container functionality beyond the > standard activity, app-data, messages and person services. > > For the client/javascript part I found the hi5 code very helpful with > getting a better understanding on how to do this. > > Example: > > Hi5Container.prototype.newAlbumsRequest = function(idSpec, opt_params) { > var rpc = { method : "albums.get" }; > ... > > On the server/PHP side I've added code to the 'ApiServlet' class to handle > the requests coming in on the new RPC topic, similar to how the other > handlers are added. > > Now my question is if this is the best way to extend Shindig/PHP? Or is it > possible to do this without having to change the 'ApiServlet' class? > > Thanks, > Erik
