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In the ongoing process of simplifying module development and reducing the duplication of effort, I'm proposing creating two modules- FTP API and S3 API. These modules will only provide these services and some configuration API. They will not provide a UI for the actual browsing and moving of files. I see the following functionality for each module:

• getting file list from specified directory
• getting file
• putting file
• setting file permissions
• global settings (user/pass, directory)
• per-user settings (optional)

In the ongoing process of simplifying module development and reducing the duplication of effort, I'm proposing creating two modules- FTP API and S3 API. These modules will only provide these services and some configuration API. They will not provide a UI for the actual browsing and moving of files. I see the following functionality for each module:

• getting file list from specified directory
• getting file
• putting file
• setting file permissions
• global settings (user/pass, directory)
• per-user settings (optional)

LinkedIn is still lacking a public API in spite of several announcements in 2007 and 2008 (they even confirmed OpenSocial support but so far did not deliver anything).

Just want to share my experience with using the apachesolr module as an API. I use apachesolr module purely as interface between my own drupal modules and the Solr instance. Part of the reason to do so is that I use a different schema.xml, compared to the one provided with the apachesolr module.

For the single technical detail, read this issue.

Thanks a lot to the developers for creating the apachesolr module and making it nicely extensible!

After several weeks of tangling with code I have release a new version of the JQuery Menu module that now provides an api for parsing hierarchical arrays into jquery click and expand menus. I have also released two new modules which make use of this api: the Advanced Taxonomy Blocks and the Advanced Book Blocks modules.

Zoals op de DrupalJam beloofd, een generiek iDeal project. Tijdens een korte meeting bleek de interesse voor een centrale iDeal plek binnen Drupal gewenst.

http://drupal.org/project/ideal_payment_api

De idee:
Een API waarmee iedereen, geïnteresseerd in paypal-oplossingen eigen modules kan bouwen. Ubercart zou er een kunnen zijn. Maar omdat betalingen niet gelimiteerd zijn tot webwinkel-omgevingen, is een generieke basis ook een goed idee.
Een tweede doel is om alle iDeal discussie, documentatie enzovoort, centraal te beheren: documentatie bij het project.

Het probleem:

Just thought I'd let everyone know I've started the Python Services API project, which provides a set of classes and and tests that Python developers can use as a basis for integration with the Services module. It's fairly bare-bones at the moment, and I'm by no means and expert Python developer, so feedback and contributions are more than welcome.

What do you guys think about new API's launched by Facebook last week? It seems like it's going to make dataportability really easy. Here's the announcement on Facebook's site: http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?blog=1&story=108

Are there any drupal apps that enable you to do this already? I know of the Authentication module.

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As I have worked with different content management and middleware solutions, one problem I have encountered numerous times, and that I think needs a better solution in drupal, is import and export of data and provision of web services. I think it would be good for drupal to create an import/export framework that would allow drupal developers to make re-usable, sharable import and export modules by implementing PHP objects to a few commmon interfaces and then adding their new import/export type into a central, common import/export module.

This is especially relevant for modern corporate newspapers that need to integrate content from different legacy systems, produce that content, then send it off to a number of different web publishing systems, and then also face the prospect of their systems changing if they are bought or sold. The framework as outlined in the design below could also be a means of implementing REST services (SOAP or XML-RPC would probably require another layer on top of this, though you probably could do it in this framework).