[iRail] [new API] Long live alpha!

Wed Dec 7 09:55:37 UTC 2011

Hi Alex,

Thanks for your nice words!

.about is a content negotiator ( 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_negotiation). This means it will 
check the HTTP Accept header to decide on the format to return the data 
in. Your browser will prefer html, therefore a var_dump of the php 
object is returned. If you don't want to use the HTTP Accept header 
(which most sane people won't ;) ) you can just add the name of the 
format instead of .about, as Tim mentioned.

You can check the currently installed formatters over here:

http://data.irail.be/TDTInfo/Formatters.about

Kind regards,

Pieter

On 12/07/2011 09:15 AM, Alex van Herwijnen wrote:
> Good to hear that the iRail API is still being worked on. It's a 
> tremendously valuable project for everyone wanting to do something 
> with the data.
>
> I just did a little test using my webbrowser and it seems that the 
> data from the Liveboards get returned as serialized PHP objects. Is 
> XML and/or JSON output planned?
>
> - Alex
>
> On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Pieter Colpaert 
> <pieter.colpaert at gmail.com <mailto:pieter.colpaert at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Quentin,
>
>     http://github.com/iRail/iRail - change branch to thedatatank.
>
>     We still need to implement Vehicle and we need to make a better
>     implementation of all other functions.
>
>     To install this you first need a The DataTank. Then you need to
>     put everything in /custom/packages and it will be installed. (In
>     the Config, when developing, select NoCache)
>
>     Is this something you can help with?
>
>     Pieter
>
>
>
>     On 12/07/2011 01:59 AM, Quentin Kaiser wrote:
>>     Hi !
>>
>>     I can help on this one ;-) Could you send me some informations
>>     about what needs to be done ?
>
>
>>
>>     Quentin
>>
>>     2011/12/6 Pieter Colpaert <pieter.colpaert at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:pieter.colpaert at gmail.com>>
>>
>>         Hi everyone,
>>
>>         Our old API is getting old. We need a new one!
>>
>>         Jens Segers and I started to write a new API in a new branch
>>         at http://github.com/iRail/iRail. You caan see the result at
>>         http://data.iRail.be.
>>
>>         Is there anyone willing to help coding? Somene who knows some
>>         PHP5? That would be great as exams are getting closer and closer!
>>
>>         NEWS: We've had a meeting with INFRABEL. We will get better
>>         access to static data very soon (GTFS). We will probably have
>>         access to real-time data as well. Therefore however Miet
>>         Claes and I will need to do some work to convince the boss of
>>         the Railtime project. The team itself was already really
>>         enthusiastic about the idea.
>>
>>         Not a PHP developer? Please give us feedback on
>>         http://data.irail.be. Try it in your applications and tell us
>>         what's wrong. The format of the output can change over time,
>>         so don't ship this! It's an alpha version :)
>>
>>         Kind regards,
>>
>>         Pieter
>>
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>>
>>     -- 
>>     Quentin Kaiser
>>
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