[iRail] iRail API - Actionscript 3 wrapper

Sat Aug 7 13:30:10 UTC 2010

Hi,

Implemented the last 2 features in the wrapper.
Let me know where I can commit them to.
I made an account on Github yesterday, username: joridor .

2010/8/7 Pieter Colpaert <pieter.colpaert at gmail.com>

> Ok. Fixed and implemented.
>
> I've added an option to the API &trainsonly
> if 1, it will only return trains, if 0 it will also return buses and
> such. Default is 0.
>
> Wiki page: http://wiki.github.com/Tuinslak/iRail/api
> Commit:
>
> http://github.com/Tuinslak/iRail/commit/cde5e533c4ab22b91e34f2852d2809b26d2899fc
>
> The commit will be pushed to api.irail.be on Monday
> It will be pushed to dev.irail.be/api tonight (I think)
>
> Thanks Christophe for your investigation on the product values. (It
> helped ;-) )
>
> Pieter
>
> On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 12:21 +0200, Joris Timmerman wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > So long as the API gets updated, I'm willing to keep this wrapper up to
> date.
> > I agree with Yeri, I don't have a subscription for busses and the fact I
> hate busses, I always set the option on the nmbs website for trains only.
> >
> >
> > Met vriendelijke groet,
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Joris Timmerman
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > Op 7-aug.-2010 om 01:12 heeft Pieter Colpaert <pieter.colpaert at gmail.com>
> het volgende geschreven:
> >
> > >
> > >>
> > >> I explained the concept of an API to someone and used the iRail API as
> > >> an example.
> > >> I build a wrapper to explain how things work, and tonight I worked
> > >> that example out to a full wrapper of Pieter's API.
> > >> (wrappers lower the the threshold for developers to use the API, I've
> > >> noticed this myself, especially in the Flash community, as an author
> > >> of a wrapper for Google's webservices, because there are a lot of
> > >> people with not much experience or not much time, and when offered a
> > >> wrapper, they're more eager to dig in).
> > >> The full source is (was) included as an attachment.
> > >
> > > Thanks, we will feature these wrappers on our website soon. Are you
> > > willing to keep it up to date?
> > >
> > >> On testing, I stumbled on something piculiar, one of the suggested
> > >> routes was a bus.
> > >> Feature or bug?
> > > Feature
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Further I have a few (API-)feature requests
> > >>      * A way to find a station by an input, such as Google Suggest
> > >>        with a few limited results, for auto-completion for example.
> > >>        (indeed this can be done with the full list, but I was
> > >>        suggesting this to avoid traffic to download the full list)
> > >
> > > You should only download the entire list once, or include it in the
> > > application. When stations are added however, you might want to update
> > > this list. That's why this API function exists.
> > >
> > >>      * A stationslist ordered hierarchally, structered by zone (with
> > >>        a zone I mean a set of stations in one city). -> drop that,
> > >>        Pieter got a very good point
> > >
> > > Thanks ;-)
> > >
> > >>      * Possibllity to pass on to the API if the given date & time is
> > >>        arrival or departure time.
> > >
> > > Fixed and commited:
> > >
> http://github.com/Tuinslak/iRail/commit/5f462523119d8022083b4e710844f743ed99efd3
> > >
> > > should be on the http://dev.irail.be/api pretty soon now...
> > >
> > >>      * ADDED: Possibllity to pass on the means of travel in the API,
> > >>        (for example: trains only, trains and busses, ...) (I would
> > >>        suggest to use an index, for example: -1 is all, 0 is only
> > >>        trains,...)
> > >
> > > I don't like this idea. I think buses should be included if necessary
> > > (as is default). What do others think of this idea?
> > >
> > > Pieter
> > >
> > >
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Joris Timmerman
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