[wp-hackers] API layer

[Matthias Breuer]

Hi Christian,

I am highly interested. Is there any code or a repo to look at? I'd really like to see your approach and how it handles the processing of requests.

Best,
Matthias

Am 04.06.2013 um 09:15 schrieb Christian Foster <christian.foster at gmail.com>:

> Hi all,
> 
> I've been working on a developer oriented API layer for WordPress - it's a
> separate (but smallish) application that sits alongside your WordPress
> install to help ease development of mobile, flash, JS clients etc.
> 
> Mobile-------->
> JS Clients--->    A
> Flash---------->    P    ----> WordPress Admin
> Feeds/Data->    I
> Other---------->
> 
> It lets us use WordPress for what it is awesome at - the content
> management, and helps provide a nice clean interface to that content. It
> returns content in any number of configured media types using the Accepts
> header or a content type in the URL (/posts/123.json). In progress or
> completed so far are:
> 
> xml
> csv
> text
> yaml
> plist
> pdf (with templating)
> json
> hypermedia formats:
> - hal+json
> - collection+json
> - json+api
> - hal+xml
> 
> Oauth2 authentication is also implemented with a start on scopes and api
> endpoint access restrictions. I've been researching the different
> approaches to secure JS clients.
> 
> My questions are:
> 
> a) is anyone interested in the project?
> b) are there any features that people would like to see in a project like
> this
> 
> It's built using the Lithium PHP framework - which is incredibly flexible.
> At the moment it is built as a basis to work off, but there is no reason it
> can't be changed into a standalone application with custom
> routes/controllers in your own plugin.
> 
> Cheers.
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