[data-protocols] Google Visualisation API as Query Protocol

Mon Feb 27 15:34:40 GMT 2012

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:03:23AM +0000, Rufus Pollock wrote:
> On 26 February 2012 17:18, Francis Irving <francis at flourish.org> wrote:
> > It's obvious, but there is an already existing, and widely adopted by
> > one major vendor, API for doing exactly the kind of thing the Data
> > Protocols Query Protocol is for.
> >
> > http://code.google.com/apis/chart/interactive/docs/querylanguage.html#Language_Syntax
> 
> Good spot. This is one I failed to copy over from
> <http://wiki.ckan.org/Data_Formats> ([1]) when I did the swift-boot of
> that page :-)
> 
> [1]: http://wiki.ckan.org/Data_Formats#Google_Visualization_API
> 
> > I've added it to existing work in git source of this page:
> >
> > http://www.dataprotocols.org/en/latest/data-query-protocol.html
> >
> > What do people think of it?
> 
> My initial feelings from my original (reasonably brief) look at it was
> that it seemed quite reasonable though the downside was that it had
> this sql language that wasn't quite sql.

Another one has occurred to me... Refine's reconciliation API. Is it
related in any way? It surely should be a standard!

Francis