On 02/03/2010 16:58, Suhothayan Sriskandarajah wrote:
Hi,
I'm willing to implement a java interface to the REST apis with test code as
Ross suggested.
For context Suho and I had a short exchange offlist about potential for
GSoC.
I informed him that, as long as the ASF is accepted as a mentoring org I
will be willing to mentor at least one participant on Wookie. I also
suggested that engaging with the community prior to GSoC evaluation can
strengthen the aplication considerably. I suggested some assistance with
the connector framework might be appropriate.
when i was going through the mailing list i found there was a discussion
on the current inconsistencies with in the Wookie REST apis and i too
found a proposed api for Wookie Widget instance.
Ignoring the potential red herring of my criticism of the existing
implementation of the REST API there are two tasks we seem to be in
agreement about:
- the REST API as specified [1] provides the required features, but is
not very RESTful in design (see [2])
- the connector framework only implements a small number of the REST API
There are two things that can be done here. The first is to design a
more RESTful API and then implement it. This is actually quite a big job
and would be a good candidate for a full GSoC project.
The implementation of the connector framework can be tackled in small
bite-size chunks. That is, you could select and implement any API call
that is not currently implemented (which is lots of them), such as any
of the properties calls.
In terms of exactly how the appropriate call should be implemented
should follow the lead of the existing connector framework [3] and test
code [4].
I strongly suggest tackling just a single API method and providing a
patch for that rather than trying to implement many at once. This gives
us a chance to evaluate your design and ensure that we are not
duplicating effort.
With respect to duplicating effort I will not be doing any work on the
method calls for at least the next week or so. I'm focussing on
separating out the code from the main tree, getting the PHP code into
SVN and testing both in real world environments. If you do start
tackling one of the API methods be sure to drop a note in this thread.
Don't hesitate to ask if you need more pointers.
Ross
[1] http://incubator.apache.org/wookie/wookie-rest-api.html
[2] http://markmail.org/thread/wsjb3bqqeshlk26d
Regards,
Suho
