Progress on NetSuite API module

Firstly, thanks to all the new members of the NetSuite group! Russ (rport) and I felt an update was in order.

So, we have made some good progress on a Drupal module that can be used to connect to the NetSuite API. Our module uses a modified version of the NetSuite PHP toolkit. Some of the enhancements we have made to the toolkit are:

• Error handling of exceptions, sending errors to the Drupal watchdog
• Short-circuiting the xml processing which PHP Toolkit likes to do after the SOAP call is made (adding meta-data based on the schema AFAICT). Frequently this raised errors for us, and not much value to be honest.
• Better call logging
• Other little bugs and tweaks.

Working services

I have the following API function wrappers which are providing a solid baseline for the private work we are doing. We are using saved searches for various list views and entity displays from those views.

• Authenticate
• Get a list of saved searches
• Display paged results of a saved search
• Display an entity

Open source status

The PHP Toolkit doesn't have an explicit license so we are unable make our version available. Our code simply won't work with the publicly available PHP Toolkit. We are currently waiting for a NetSuite representative to consider our request for them to GPL the toolkit.

Based on the response from NetSuite, three things could happen:

1. If the toolkit is not open-sourced, we need to find resources to write our own interface so we can bundle.
2. If the toolkit is GPL'd we will release a forked version bundled with our NetSuite module.
3. If the toolkit is open-sourced in a way not compatible with GPL, we may initially release our forked version on github.com. However we would remain keen to write a GPL version sooner or later.

Our preference is to develop a GPL version. We're seeking active NetSuite support to do this. We have a pretty clear idea of what is needed to build an interface, however we could use some support to do it in a timely matter. We welcome any offers of funding, sponsorship, collaboration and resources to make this happen!

As soon as we get some clear direction from NetSuite we'll make available a public git repository of our interface code.

Thanks for being part of the group!
Simon