services

Anyone interested in collaborating on Zen like flex theme, specifically someone who can code the AS3 DTO's? The idea being to model the project after the features and functionality currently available in the Zen theme, but built in flex.

Its my feeling that if we had one good starter theme for flex it would allow designers and themers to more easily get started creating more advanced flex themes.

I'm also wondering if there might be some overlap or lessons we can learn from the patterns.module. http://drupal.org/project/patterns

I just uploaded a stand-alone module that provides Services methods for the Voting API. This allows external applications to access and modify Voting API data for Drupal objects. For example, a Flash application could implement an interface for voting on nodes.

I've submitted this as a feature request to the Voting API project at:
http://drupal.org/node/241453

If you use the Voting API and Services, please help me test this and support its inclusion in future Voting API releases. Let me know if you have any questions or suggestions.

One issue with the Services API is its weak implementation of API keys. Although it does work, it could be better. It is probably worth it to investigate OAuth, an open protocol to "allow secure API authentication in a simple and standard method from desktop and web applications". Some of you got the chance to see Boris' talk on this in Boston at Drupalcon, any thoughts? How would it effect Services?

I am currently using Flex to consume an amfphp service, and it works great. However, when you try to use the swf on a Facebook profile, you have to click on an image first in order to load the swf.

My thought was to use the JSON server to return JSON to my facebook app. However, I get hit with the cross domain security issue. Has anyone here successfully accessed the JSON Server from a remote domain?

-Erich-

Hello.. I'm working on my little app here.. have figured out login, upload avatar.. and so on.. http://metroklub.sk/drulog/bin-release/DrupalLoginApp.html <-- don't know how long it will hang there.. anyway I would like my users to create their own group and let others to join in if they are approved.. nothing really complicated [i guess] but now I don't know which direction to take.. should I role out my own piece of php code with included bootstrap.. or install an organic groups module and try to make a service for it?.. [I don't think I'm skilled enough to write my own services]..

This is the beginnings of a design specification proposal for an abstracted API for implementing web services within Drupal 7. This allows Drupal to act as both a server and client for web services in any protocol medium (XML-RPC, RDF, RSS, JSON, etc). It is the combined efforts from a number of people at Druplicon including Marc Ingram, Scott Nelson, Nedjo Rogers, Dmitri Gaskin, etc.

Services API

Just a quick note that nedjo posted a note about Services module going into core. This would allow use of XML-RPC, JSON, RSS, REST, SOAP and more to be loaded through a common Services API.

A Code Sprint will take place in Boston this coming Friday that will focus on the inclusion of this new Services API.

I've developed an additional service to implement Drupal content searching. This service provides one method, search.searchData, which uses Drupal's hook_search (and is closely based on the Drupal API command search_data).

The service accepts up to three arguments:

1. search_keys: the keywords for the search
2. type (optional): the type of data to search (i.e. 'node', 'user')
3. simple (optional): if set, the search returns only the main fields (link, type, title, user, date, snippet) and removes any additional data

What is the best way to organize and commit patches back to Drupal modules for Services?

Examples:
* comment.load
* comment.user
* inbox.getmessages
* node.load
* node.save
* node.delete
* user.login
* user.logout
* aggregator.load

User g10 starts the discussion with there should be a consensus bout this:

Hello all,

I will be attending my first DrupalCon at Boston and am working to organize and propose a session about Services. I'm thinking of doing a short presentation about my original vision for Services, and then an open discussion on Drupal and web services in general, expanding on some of the great ideas posted over the last few months.

I'd like to know if there's anything in particular you think the session should cover, and also to connect with anybody who might be thinking of doing a Services related session, or would like to get involved.

Thanks,
Scott