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

Mon Apr 15 16:35:12 UTC 2013

Let's take it off list unless anyone has a particular interest in Java, and
then we can work out how I can push everything back to
github.com/okfn/ckanclient-j

Cheers.

Ross

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Timothy Lebo <lebot at rpi.edu> wrote:

> Andrew, Ross,
>
> I'm the third fork on https://github.com/okfn/CKANClient-J/network
>
> I updated build.xml to living dependency URLs, implemented DatasetRevision
> (via gson), added some comments, and tweaked some styling.
> FWIW, [1] is currently motivating my changes to ckanclient-j.
>
> I'm happy to discuss how to align our efforts so that we can merge back
> into Ross', if he finds it acceptable.
>
> Should these discussions be on this list, or should we take it off list?
>
> Regards,
> Tim Lebo
>
> [1] https://github.com/timrdf/DataFAQs/tree/master/src/java/sadi-services
>
>
> On Apr 15, 2013, at 8:30 AM, Ross Jones <ross at servercode.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi Andrew,
>
> Welcome to the list, glad to see you managed to get around the list
> problem :)
>
> That's great, I suspect maintaining a list of action calls as the CKAN
> core API grows might become a little onerous, but you know, the joys of
> statically typed languages ;)  Not sure who on the core team is comfortable
> with Java, but if no-one objects, and if you submit a PR I'd be happy to
> try it out and merge the changes for you. I think there is another fork of
> the client containing a few patches, so it'd be great if you could merge
> those in too.
>
> Ross.
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Andrew Martin <
> andrew.martin at newcastle.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>>  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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