Qt DevNet Web Service API

[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>
@

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.