[wp-xmlrpc] GSOC Proposal - Extending WordPress Remote API

[prasath nadarajah]

Updated my proposal.
I think this should be the final one
http://nprasath.com/wordpress-webservices/

Thank You for your feedbacks!!!


On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 12:29 AM, prasath nadarajah <n.prasath.002 at gmail.com
> wrote:

> What i thought was mobile clients can use this on startup
> rather than in real time.
>
> Every time i open the android app do something and close.
> The next time i open in the startup screen
> we can display notifications about the changes.
> On startup clients can call this method to display notifications.
> This way the battery life is saved.
>
> On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 11:59 PM, Joseph Scott <joseph at josephscott.org>wrote:
>
>> A method to provide event notifications would be interesting, but
>> probably not worth targeting this for mobile clients.  Virtually
>> guaranteed that any mobile app that would be interested in these
>> events would need to use the event mechanism for that platform.
>> Holding open a connection or polling on a mobile client is a horrible
>> battery drain.
>>
>> As scribu already mentioned on
>> http://nprasath.com/wordpress-webservices/ management of CPT's isn't
>> really viable via XML-RPC because they aren't persistent, but editing
>> CPT content would be really handy.  Same for other features in WP that
>> are non-persistent.
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 7:35 AM, prasath nadarajah
>> <n.prasath.002 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > This enables mobile clients to show notifications about the updates in
>> the
>> > blog. A generic method which can accept date-time as an argument and
>> queries
>> > for new posts, comments, user etc and return an array containing the new
>> > changes. This would is possible after improving the search API and also
>> > reduces the bandwidth used by the mobile apps.
>> >
>> > Mobile clients can hold the date-time when they are closed an at opening
>> > they can pass the this argument and retrieve notifications about new
>> > activity thus reducing the usage of bandwidth.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Joseph Scott
>> joseph at josephscott.org
>> http://josephscott.org/
>>
>
>
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