Qt DevNet Web Service API

ZapB

[quote author="Alexandra" date="1304609933"][quote author="Gurudutt" date="1304609532"]Hi ZapB
About giving access to admin site, I am not sure if that is ideal, I guess there are some security concerns and many more.
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Although it might solve some problems, it should be fairly obvious that we can't do that. We're even carefully towards our own colleagues.

Just imagine someone accidentally hitting the "drop all tables" button. :P[/quote]

I never suggested having access to the admin side of the live site - only the source code of the CMS. ;-)

ZapB

As for making the API faster, you could use mod_rewite or some other method to redirect the API requests to a dedicated box that runs a Qt/C++ mini-webserver process that uses all those lovely Qt modules to query and process the requests into a suitable json response. All we need to get that off the ground is some details of the database schema. We could open it up as a QtDevNet community project ;-)

gurudutt

[quote author="ZapB" date="1304592956"]Gurudutt, another problem today. Onthe front page again, line 226, col 181:

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<div class="item"><img src="http://developer.qt.nokia.com/uploads/qt_quarterly/qt_ambassador_logo.png" alt="Qt Ambassador" width="150" height="201" alt="image" /></div>
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the alt attribute is redefined leading to another error when using XQuery on that xhtml. Could you squash that bug too please? It looks like a simple static html one.

Many thanks.[/quote]

Hi ZapB,

Front page of Developer network follows XHTML 1.0 strict standards now.
Please confirm if it works as expected for your plug-in.

ZapB

Hi Gurudutt.

Thanks for sorting out those issues. I am able to use QXmlQuery to scrape the gravatar info once again.

mgran

[quote author="ZapB" date="1304332586"]Marius, I wonder if you could help me with something please?[/quote]

Hey ZapB, I'm back, adding the gravatar info should be doable, I suggest it becomes part of the next version of the API. See "this post":http://developer.qt.nokia.com/forums/viewthread/5451/P15/#35854 for my motivation.

ZapB

Thanks Marius. From reading on gravatar I think the needed info is just the md5 hash of the registered email address so as you say this should be doable. At least I had a reason to learn about QXmlQuery ;-)

mgran

Gravatar hash and member ID will be part of the next release, like this:

@"member_id":"7","gravatar_hash":"f1fad06bfc26dd4ad534c8d6e4d5965c"@

added to the output from a "profile" API request.

Our next release is in 14 days.

ZapB

Cool. Thanks for that Marius. I'll start modifying my client when it is released. I'll be able to bin the large hack using XQuery then.

vsorokin

@mariusg Yay! Cool. I will add this to my extension too.

mgran

Nothing new but a few days ago we added the devnet API documentation with examples here:

http://developer.qt.nokia.com/groups/devnet_meta/wiki/API_documentation

sierdzio

Marius, I think URL on the wiki should be "/qtapi/1/member/profile" instead of "/api/1/member/profile"?

mgran

[quote author="sierdzio" date="1315072415"]Marius, I think URL on the wiki should be "/qtapi/1/member/profile" instead of "/api/1/member/profile"?[/quote]

Thanks sierdzio, fixed now.

sierdzio

On a side note, the QWebService lib I am writing (some of you might remember it from qt5-feedback) is now ready for RESTful, JSON web services. I've recently put together an example that users QtDN API. Getting JSON reply is doable with 1 line of code (although I use 3 lines in my example app). Available on "Gitorious":http://gitorious.org/qwebservice and, in the future, maybe as part of Qt5. I'll probably post more info on it in the future, in a separate thread. Sorry for any typos, I'm using my phone for this post.

BTW: Would appreciate any feedback on API, intuitiveness, usability etc., as well as help in coding.