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Re: [iot-pmc] Yahoo Weather dependency
True, Sorry! I started thinking about that topic but it seems these thoughts never reached the mailing list ;-)

My first idea was, why not use something which can be used out of the box?

The second thing would be to provide some sort of user interaction for this: like requesting to put in a URL, and provide a default value (which has still to be entered) with a note that references the terms and conditions. In this case one would be able to enter a different URL and the whole thing would clearly be a works-withs dependency, since it is up to you what you place in there.

I am not so sure, if this is the case when the only possible URL is yahoo, and it is nailed down in the source code. Which might be a wrong assumption.

As a reference, we did have a similar discussion about an Eclipse SCADA sample with Arduino. Since we don't distribute the sample with our release, and it was only a tutorial, not part of the Eclipse SCADA "product", it was ok to use works withs, as far as I remember. So if this HTTP call is only in a sample file, on the wiki, this would seem similar to me.

Again, this is only what came across my mind, and I would like to understand it better!

And sorry for the delay!

Jens

On 04/15/2015 07:03 PM, Kai Kreuzer wrote:
As I did not get any reply or comments yet, I would like to bring this question back to your attention :-)

Thanks,
Kai

Am 02.04.2015 um 22:11 schrieb Kai Kreuzer <kai@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

Dear PMC colleagues,

In Eclipse SmartHome, we have implemented a „Yahoo Weather Binding“ as a reference for developers to see how bindings should be developed. It is not really meant to be used by anybody productively, but rather only for testing and demos. The IP team now pointed out correctly, that the Yahoo weather API itself comes with its own terms & conditions (see https://developer.yahoo.com/weather/).

It was suggested to treat the HTTP calls to this API as a dependency like a code dependency. I therefore wonder if you would agree that it could be classified as a works-with dependency? The binding is not required for using Eclipse SmartHome as it is optional and as mentioned above, rather for reference.

Let me know what you think!

Thanks,
Kai



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