Difference between revisions of "Web Services Working Group"

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The Web Services Working Group is a Production Working Group.

Coordinators & PLT Contact[edit]

The coordinator for this working group is Ashwin Date (mailto:coolbung@gmail.com).
The PLT Contact for this working group is Chris Davenport (mailto:chris.davenport@joomla.org).

Announcements[edit]

External resources[edit]

Thinking outside the platform is a general introduction to the importance of web services in Joomla.
Recommended reading: Web API Design by Brian Mulloy, Apigee (NOTE: Registration required)
Stefan Neculai is a GSoC student working on a Web service API. Read about him in the Joomla Magazine.
Aaron Schmitz has done some work on an OAuth 2.0 library
Louis Landry has created an OAuth connector. Also take a look at Louis's new router proposal.
[REST API by Techjoomla for Joomla Separate app approach Presentation | http://www.slideshare.net/coolbung/joomla-rest-api]
[REST API by Techjoomla for Joomla Separate app approach Github | https://github.com/techjoomla/Joomla-REST-API]
[com_api approach | https://github.com/techjoomla/com_api]
[com_api Plugins | https://github.com/techjoomla/com_api-plugins]
Rafael Corral's web API extension for Joomla 2.5
Note on current architecture used in Joomla 2.5
Herman Peeren's presentation at J and Beyond 2010
API Craft mailing list.
Proof-of-concept implementation of draft API specification for Joomla 3.x.
Taking a REST and being HAPI - Chris Davenport's presentation at J and Beyond 2013 - Slides also available from Slideshare
hal+json specification
Don't worry be “API” - best practices and implementation - Pierre André Vullioud's Slides of his presentation at J and Beyond 2013
Test API for Joomla using SlimFramework by pvullioud. For this example only basic tags are supported

Deliverables[edit]

Create a POC using com_users by using the extending it to add webservices to Adding, Editing users, Listing users. Added by Parth Lawate as per webservices group discussion at #JWC12

Technical work produced by this group[edit]

24 Dec 2012: First draft of Request For Comments: A Web Service API for the Joomla CMS
10 Feb 2012: Second draft of Web Services API Specification

Communications[edit]

Primary communications channel is the Joomla CMS Development mailing list. If the volume of traffic becomes such that it might be deemed to be a nuisance by those not interested in web services, then we will most likely start a separate mailing list.

There is also a Glip chat [1] for informal communications. Please request to be added by contacting Ashwin Date or Chris Davenport. There was Slack chat and a Skype chat but these are no longer used.

Roadmap[edit]

Web Services in Joomla: A Roadmap

Meetings[edit]

19 May 2012: Meeting at J and Beyond 2012, Bad Nauheim, Germany.
17 November 2012: Meeting at Joomla World Conference, San Jose, California.
31 May - 2 June 2013: Meeting during J and Beyond 2013, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands.
10 November 2013: Meeting during Joomla World Conference, Boston, USA.

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 Primary communications channel is the [https://groups.google.com/group/joomla-dev-cms?hl=en Joomla CMS Development mailing list].   If the volume of traffic becomes such that it might be deemed to be a nuisance by those not interested in web services, then we will most likely start a separate mailing list.
-There is also a Slack chat [https://slack.com/] for informal communications.  Please request to be added by contacting Ashwin Date or Chris Davenport.  There was also a Skype chat but this is no longer used.
+There is also a Glip chat [https://glip.com/] for informal communications.  Please request to be added by contacting Ashwin Date or Chris Davenport.  There was Slack chat and a Skype chat but these are no longer used.
 ==Roadmap==