| RE: [phoenix-epic-dev] Marketplace RESTish API |
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Todd, Can you open a bug for these items. Some
seem doable but others might be more problematic. Right now Nathan and I are
focused on launching the site on December 8. We should be able to get to these
suggestions shortly after the launch. Thanks Ian From:
Content-filter at foundation.eclipse.org
[mailto:postmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Todd Williams Nathan, I've checked with our technical team and they'd
greatly appreciate the following enhancements to the RESTish API, below because
providing this additional information allows a much higher likelihood of
different providers consuming the technology in an automated fashion and
providing richer integration with provisioning. Suggestions: 3. Node URL ex http://marketplace.eclipse.org/node/%/xml - Should have back references to the categories it is
assigned to. - Should have a non-HTML 'short' description of a
sentence or two. - Should have 'votes' or such information exposed - Should have a top-level list of IU IDs to be
installed with markings for 'required' vs. 'optional': <to-install><iu
required='true' id='org.eclipse.cool.software'/><iu required='false'
id='org.eclipse.cool.addon'/></to-install> - Should provide well-structured Eclipse compatible
versions, currently there are different formats used for supported Eclipse
versions, we should have an element like
<eclipse-compatibility><version>3.3</version><version>3.4</version>...
or similar. - Should provide hints as to the operating systems
supported like:
<eclipse-compatibility><os>win32,x86,win32</os><os>macosx,x86,carbon</os></eclipse-compatibility>
with the contents being well-structured triplets or broken out as individual
elements. - Should have a flag indicating that the listing has
been updated for 'automated install' including full specification of
<to-install> and <eclipse-compatibility>, basically something for
the listing author to 'approve' this as a well-structured listing instead of
one of the listings we've migrated over time. Regards, Todd On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Nathan Gervais <nathan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Afternoon Devs, I’ve finalized the initial implementation of the Marketplace
RESTish API. In a true REST scenario we would be allowing for Create /
Retrieve / Update / Delete capabilities but in this case we’re only offering a
retrieve feature. You can find the documentation here http://wiki.eclipse.org/Marketplace/REST I’ve tried to make it simple to use / parse. The hope
here is to eventually have something in Eclipse that will allow browsing of
Marketplace directly. Any comments / questions are appreciated. Nathan Gervais - nathan@xxxxxxxxxxx Web Developer The Eclipse Foundation
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