Hi, Sounds like everybody is busy squashing bugs for 4.7's release. I was wondering about the likelihood of authenticated web services (token approach or whatever) being added into 4.7. The project I'm working on right now really needs it (building on 4.7) but if there's not a snowball's chance in hell of it being added I'll take a different approach in the interim. Thanks. Ben. -- blog: http://www.mostlygeek.com
Hi Ben, On 25 Jan 2006, at 18:25, Benson Wong wrote:
Sounds like everybody is busy squashing bugs for 4.7's release. I was wondering about the likelihood of authenticated web services (token approach or whatever) being added into 4.7. The project I'm working on right now really needs it (building on 4.7) but if there's not a snowball's chance in hell of it being added I'll take a different approach in the interim.
(Nice meeting you again.) We're currently in a feature freeze and therefore new functionality will have to wait for Drupal 4.8. -- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/
(Nice meeting you again.) Likewise. See you in Vancouver in Feb? :)
We're currently in a feature freeze and therefore new functionality will have to wait for Drupal 4.8.
Shucks. I would like to revamp the web service system in 4.8/.9/whatever then. It seems strange to me to keep the xmlrpc.php file around since everything else is dynamic. I would like to see a layer that separates the web service protocol (XMLRPC, REST, SOAP, etc) from the functionality. I like how you can access flickr's api in a variety of different ways. Would like to see that in Drupal as well. Ben.
Shucks. I would like to revamp the web service system in 4.8/.9/whatever then. It seems strange to me to keep the xmlrpc.php file around since everything else is dynamic. I would like to see a layer that separates the web service protocol (XMLRPC, REST, SOAP, etc) from the functionality.
You can start working on it now, and provide a patch. If so, that patch can land as soon the development branch opens up (and you could run a patch 4.7 for the time being). -- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/
On 25 Jan 2006, at 9:45 PM, Benson Wong wrote:
Shucks. I would like to revamp the web service system in 4.8/.9/whatever then. It seems strange to me to keep the xmlrpc.php file around since everything else is dynamic. I would like to see a layer that separates the web service protocol (XMLRPC, REST, SOAP, etc) from the functionality.
Are you going to be at DrupalCON? We will be discussing this (i've got some evil plans in that direction) -- Adrian Rossouw Drupal developer and Bryght Guy http://drupal.org | http://bryght.com
Ben: On 25-Jan-06, at 9:25 AM, Benson Wong wrote:
Sounds like everybody is busy squashing bugs for 4.7's release. I was wondering about the likelihood of authenticated web services (token approach or whatever) being added into 4.7. The project I'm working on right now really needs it (building on 4.7) but if there's not a snowball's chance in hell of it being added I'll take a different approach in the interim.
If it is a useful approach, improves the code, etc., it MIGHT get in for 4.7. Alternately, you might be able to wrap it as a contrib module, and have it applied to the 4.8 branch as soon as that is opened for development. Please use the proper channels on Drupal.org and post your patch there, set to "ready for review". Even if it doesn't get in, maintaining the patch against core is the clean way to do it going forward. John VanDyk was interested and is giving out ponies to all Drupal site installers (see http://www.sysarchitects.com/node/11). His publish/subscribe modules might be a good home for the code and/or he could indicate that having it in core would mean that those modules plus blogAPI plus your stuff could all make use of it. Hope that helps, -- Boris Mann Vancouver 778-896-2747 San Francisco 415-367-3595 SKYPE borismann http://www.bryght.com
If it is a useful approach, improves the code, etc., it MIGHT get in for 4.7. Alternately, you might be able to wrap it as a contrib module, and have it applied to the 4.8 branch as soon as that is opened for development.
I would like to see it in Core for 4.7. The addition is extremely minimal, like approximately 40 lines of code. Most of which lies in a couple of RPC call functions I added and some token checking stuff. I submitted it as a patch. The only thing I am unsure about is safety / design of calling the drupal session functions directly. Ben
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