[ckan-dev] CKANClient-J (+ an introduction)

[Andrew Martin]

Hello all,
                As a newbie I thought I should introduce myself, we're currently evaluating the potential of CKAN at Newcastle University and I'm focussing on the integration side of things, I've had a look at a few of the clients and all 3 versions of the API, it does all seem relatively sane. As much as I like REST I'm also liking the RPC departure in the version 3 API.

I have a bit of a history with creating web services and clients for SOAP and REST, in Java and PHP (plus a little in c# and .js), so I thought I'd see if I could make my life easier before starting any integrations, so, I have taken a fork of Ross Jones' prototype java client and added to it and tried to make working with it easier too (not that it was hard to begin with!) and so far I've managed to work my way through everything on this list... https://github.com/andmar8/CKAN-Java-Client/blob/master/README.md#actions-api

A few of those existed already, so I'll not take credit for that(!), but I'm playing with a little structural rewrite that makes adding the missing API much faster.

Once this is a little more mature I will port the code to PHP, which shouldn't be too hard a task given the PHP web service libraries!

Just thought I'd let people on the list know....

Andrew Martin
Research and Collaborative Services
Newcastle University
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