help! :)

[C.J. Adams-Collier-4]

Hey folks,

I'm looking to create a mobile app to manage image distribution.  I want
to make some patches to gallery to perform synchronization with the
various other image gallery stores, ie facebook, twitpic, flickr, etc.
I also want to write a java library to ease communication with the
gallery instance.  I'm no Java guru, but I've found some code to perform
simple HTTP GET/POST requests.  I figure I can put together a class that
can be used to perform the usual set of tasks one would normally use a
web browser to perform.

I've got a few questions.

1) does such a library already exist released under the GPL, BSD,
MIT/X11, etc. license?
2) Is there a better way to interface with the web app than through
simple HTTP POST?  Maybe a JSON-RPC php page?
3) Does there exist any work related to synchronizing Gallery with other
data stores?
4) Do any of you devs know where I should start in order to implement an
HMAC-MD5 authN scheme?

Thanks in advance!

C.J.



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[Bharat Mediratta]

C.J. Adams-Collier wrote:

> I'm looking to create a mobile app to manage image distribution.  I want
> to make some patches to gallery to perform synchronization with the
> various other image gallery stores, ie facebook, twitpic, flickr, etc.
> I also want to write a java library to ease communication with the
> gallery instance.  I'm no Java guru, but I've found some code to perform
> simple HTTP GET/POST requests.  I figure I can put together a class that
> can be used to perform the usual set of tasks one would normally use a
> web browser to perform.
>
> I've got a few questions.
>
> 1) does such a library already exist released under the GPL, BSD,
> MIT/X11, etc. license?
> 2) Is there a better way to interface with the web app than through
> simple HTTP POST?  Maybe a JSON-RPC php page?
> 3) Does there exist any work related to synchronizing Gallery with other
> data stores?
> 4) Do any of you devs know where I should start in order to implement an
> HMAC-MD5 authN scheme?

Gallery 1 and Gallery 2 use the "Gallery Remote API":
http://www.google.com/search?q=gallery+remote+api

there are plenty of free clients for it.  There are probably other APIs
available also, but I haven't spent much time looking at them.

Discussion is underway about the Gallery 3 API which will be complete
different and totally more awesome.  It also won't be ready until
Gallery 3 is ready (in about 1.5 months).

-Bharat

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[C.J. Adams-Collier-4]

On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 12:06 -0400, Bharat Mediratta wrote:

> C.J. Adams-Collier wrote:
> > I'm looking to create a mobile app to manage image distribution.  I want
> > to make some patches to gallery to perform synchronization with the
> > various other image gallery stores, ie facebook, twitpic, flickr, etc.
> > I also want to write a java library to ease communication with the
> > gallery instance.  I'm no Java guru, but I've found some code to perform
> > simple HTTP GET/POST requests.  I figure I can put together a class that
> > can be used to perform the usual set of tasks one would normally use a
> > web browser to perform.
> >
> > I've got a few questions.
> >
> > 1) does such a library already exist released under the GPL, BSD,
> > MIT/X11, etc. license?
> > 2) Is there a better way to interface with the web app than through
> > simple HTTP POST?  Maybe a JSON-RPC php page?
> > 3) Does there exist any work related to synchronizing Gallery with other
> > data stores?
> > 4) Do any of you devs know where I should start in order to implement an
> > HMAC-MD5 authN scheme?
>
> Gallery 1 and Gallery 2 use the "Gallery Remote API":
> http://www.google.com/search?q=gallery+remote+api

Alrighty.  I think I'm going to use g3, since I've set up an instance of
that at gallery.colliertech.org, and I'm pro future.

> there are plenty of free clients for it.  There are probably other APIs
> available also, but I haven't spent much time looking at them.

meh, I have been meaning to learn how to wrangle java anyway, let's see
if I can make a usable class...

> Discussion is underway about the Gallery 3 API which will be complete
> different and totally more awesome.  It also won't be ready until
> Gallery 3 is ready (in about 1.5 months).

"git pull" is "ready" enough for me!  I'll see if I can implement a php
HMAC-MD5 authN module and contribute it in order to avoid the load of
running over an https socket.

> -Bharat

Cheers,

C.J.



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[Bharat Mediratta]

C.J. Adams-Collier wrote:

> Alrighty.  I think I'm going to use g3, since I've set up an instance of
> that at gallery.colliertech.org, and I'm pro future.
>
>> there are plenty of free clients for it.  There are probably other APIs
>> available also, but I haven't spent much time looking at them.
>
> meh, I have been meaning to learn how to wrangle java anyway, let's see
> if I can make a usable class...
>
>> Discussion is underway about the Gallery 3 API which will be complete
>> different and totally more awesome.  It also won't be ready until
>> Gallery 3 is ready (in about 1.5 months).
>
> "git pull" is "ready" enough for me!  I'll see if I can implement a php
> HMAC-MD5 authN module and contribute it in order to avoid the load of
> running over an https socket.

Great!  You probably want to watch this thread:
http://www.nabble.com/API-development-tt24473532.html

It's been dormant for a few days, but Chris Kelly is about to start
driving that topic over the finish line :-)

-Bharat

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