[ckan-dev] Specification of data processing web services.

[Ross Jones]

My understanding was that the primary user would be CKAN itself, but ideally building a solution 
that will be of use outside of a particular CKAN installation as well (hopefully as a side effect).  

I think Toby also pointed out auth as an issue, and whilst at this point we aren't really looking at 
publishing arbitrary code to be run, it might be that one of the services does fill that role.

I'm pretty sure your contribution would be welcomed :)

Ross


On 14 Jun 2012, at 14:35, James Casbon wrote:

> On 14 June 2012 12:36, David Raznick <kindly at gmail.com> wrote:
> Please tell me what you think of this or if I am reinventing the wheel
> here.  Before going ahead with any work on this there needs some
> discussion.
> 
> Picloud already support publishing arbritray python functions and exposing them via RESTish interface.
> Have a look at this: http://blog.picloud.com/2011/09/14/introducing-function-publishing-via-rest/
> 
> I didn't quite understand who creates the tasks?  If it is anyone (i.e. anon can upload her data processing task source code) then your main problem here is going to be sandboxing, not API details.  I have thought quite a lot about this, so I can help out if you want.

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