[iRail] [new API] Long live alpha!

Wed Dec 7 16:25:05 UTC 2011

Hi Pieter,

I followed your instructions and made a little commit on Vehicle. Do you
have a ticket system for this branch ? It could be easier for "external
dev".

Quentin

2011/12/7 Pieter Colpaert <pieter.colpaert at gmail.com>

>  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
> > 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>
>>
>>> 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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>>
>>
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