[commits] [Wiki] changed: Project/H6TODO

[Michael Slusarz]

slusarz  Tue, 01 Apr 2014 09:02:46 +0000

Modified page: http://wiki.horde.org/Project/H6TODO
New Revision:  4
Change log:  API calls discussion

@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@
  * Websockets version of AJAX endpoint
  * Log improvements
    * Ability to queue log entries (configurable), for logging after request.
    * Also... right now, we need to fully process log entry before we  
know if we are going to accept, since log level checking happens at  
the lowest levels of logging chain. Need to move this up in chain so  
that we can exit out of log code earlier if we know that we don't want  
to process.
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+* Application API access
+  * Current status is apparently that complex objects are not allowed  
as return from API calls due to possibility that they may be returned  
via RPC.  But we have a bunch of code that does do this, and the  
takeaway is that inter-application sharing is much much more important  
than remote calls
+    * One solution: Have these calls return an object that will allow  
to gracefully degrade if advanced object support is not available
+    * Or else figure out way to consistently determine how to  
document calls not intended for remote access.  I see absolutely  
nothing wrong with allowing access to inter-application calls via  
native PHP interface without allowing remote call.  (Logistically,  
this could be done by defining yet another API for applications.  But  
practically, this is better done within the existing framework to  
minimize complexity).