On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 3:08 AM, Brion Vibber <br...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On 4/24/09 6:36 AM, Eugene Zelenko wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Andrew Garrett<agarr...@wikimedia.org> >> wrote: >>> The advantage of this clear separation is that writing an API module >>> is very simple, and it can be called internally, too! >> >> I think will be good idea to use API internally (not only have >> possibility to call), as result code will have more testing and >> coverage.
> Client-side JavaScript UI code can use the API to reach the backend, but > I don't see much benefit to trying to use the API on the PHP UI end; > it'll generally just be awkward. > > API code should rarely have to do any serious DB or processing work > itself; it should be calling the backend model/controller-level interface. I mean, of course, that the back-end business logic interface can be called internally, not that the API can be called internally. -- Andrew Garrett _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
