| Thanks! Benjamin, ok for you as well?
Regards, Kai
So +1 from me for works-with .. about
time ;)
Jens
On 04/29/2015 03:59 PM, Kai Kreuzer wrote:
Hi Jens,
Sorry, this time I didn’t manage to respond any
earlier…
Her suggestion (B) to simply remove the url from the
code and not to mention it in any documentation does not make
much sense to me. After all, the code only makes any sense with
this single url as there is no other service that implements
exactly the same API as Yahoo does, so the url itself is not
replacable by another without breaking the system.
Nonetheless, I consider Eclipse SmartHome „Add-ons“
like this binding an optional part, that is not required to run
and use Eclipse SmartHome. The users have the possibility to use
other extensions and e.g. get weather data through other
channels (e.g. MQTT).
Best regards,
Kai
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
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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