Transition Technology: Ticket #180: Add JSON views for external services

jim — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:36:31 GMT

Services 3 beta 1 is now on LIVE...

status changed

jim — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 18:07:00 GMT

status changed from new to accepted

Thinking out loud, the services needed are as follows:

External Sites & Apps (Paul's stuff)

Ability for external to pass in a lat/long and 'type' (event, news, person, ini, proj etc) and get back list of node titles, a link to node, last updated date and distance from lat/long.

Sharing Engine - from TN.org

Return list of initiatives with location and feeds - ALL to prime system
As above but just recent updates to maintain system once primed.

Sharing Engine - to TN.org/other sites

ability to receive lat/long and return feed items (RSS feed etc) related to it.

This ties in well with extending TN near me (#182)... Any thoughts, Ed?

Will start adding views & services on DEV now.

ed — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 21:17:41 GMT

Externals may want access to 'latest' (e.g. Patterns - I know Paul's after them too)

'list of initiatives with location and feeds' if you mean being able to return a list of feed items of the initiatives' news related to lat/long which could appear in TN near me, YES PLEASE

hours, totalhours changed

jim — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 17:25:19 GMT

hours changed from 0.0 to 0.15
totalhours changed from 0.0 to 0.15

Web service 'lite' in place for SE stuff...

Additionally, Paul MacKay? wants this for his app:

Inis:

name
status
region
initiative type
community type
approx members
main contact
website
lat/long
description
themes ?
related projects
PPoC uid

Projects:

title
website
lat/long
description
main contact
PPoC uid

All in a nice JSON feed.

Prob need two versions of these views:

'all' as a dumb dump to prime the remote cache
'recently updated' which takes a date and shows updates only to update the remote cache.

Patterns yet to be specced...

ed — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 21:51:02 GMT

hang loose on patterns for now - Rob said that there are likely to be changes...

summary changed

jim — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 15:52:41 GMT

summary changed from Add web services to Add JSON views for external services

Services module NOT being used this time around - overkill for our simple use-cases.

Updating title

hours, totalhours changed

jim — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 20:56:57 GMT

hours changed from 0.0 to 0.5
totalhours changed from 0.15 to 0.65

New JSON view output of initiatives at: http://www.transitionnetwork.org/transition-services/directories/initiatives/all

NOTE this is effectively a data dump and is inefficient. Will speak to Paul to see if adding http://drupal.org/project/views_daterange makes sense so we can pull back, say, all inis updated since the mobile app last checked.

jim — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:28:33 GMT

discussion ongoing with Paul MacKay?, projects to follow.

And the ContentTypes? page represents the start of the API/data documentation.

hours, status, totalhours changed; resolution set

jim — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 19:36:52 GMT

hours changed from 0.0 to 0.25
status changed from accepted to closed
resolution set to fixed
totalhours changed from 0.65 to 0.9

Projects also have this: http://www.transitionnetwork.org/transition-services/directories/projects/all

And, so clients can get a smaller chunk of data - these two return only those that have been updated within 7 days.

Poss need 'updated within month' version too...

Have now created all required views, will close this until futher request come through.