No OAuth or any other standard authentication enforced by these services. Just the username needs to be passed in as a URL parameter primarily for caller identification.
Picked it from the list of connectors we had initially identified. Thanks, Manoj On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 5:25 PM, Malaka Silva <[email protected]> wrote: > IMO this is a handy connector to our list. > > For auth are we using any OAUTH flow or simple pass the credentials? > > Best Regards, > Malaka > > > On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 3:45 AM, Manoj Fernando <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Folks, >> >> GeoNames is a free service that offers geographical information across >> all countries with a wide coverage of over 8 million placenames. They >> have a set of useful REST APIs which we can wrap inside an ESB connector >> for some useful geo queries during a message flow. Please refer to [1] for >> a full list of available services. >> >> For the first pass, we can implement an ESB connector wrapping the >> services listed @ [2]. >> >> A couple of points to note... >> a. Connector config on the ESB will slightly vary based on the service, >> but overall will have a structure similar to the following. >> e.g. findNearestPostalCodes >> >> <geonames.postalcodesearch> >> <postalCode>9011</postalCode> >> <username>geonames-user</username> >> <maxRows>10</maxRows> >> </geonames.postalcodesearch> >> >> b. This is a free and public service that does not enforce strict >> authentication measures. However these services have a daily throttle >> limit based on the username, hence IMO we can bring that onto the ESB >> configuration level so that the front end callers will not have to worry >> about that. >> >> >> [1] http://www.geonames.org/export/ws-overview.html >> >> [2] >> 10 findNearby<http://www.geonames.org/export/web-services.html#findNearby> >> XML<http://api.geonames.org/findNearby?lat=48.865618158309374&lng=2.344207763671875&fclass=P&fcode=PPLA&fcode=PPL&fcode=PPLC&username=demo&style=full> >> JSON 11 >> findNearbyPlaceName<http://www.geonames.org/export/web-services.html#findNearbyPlaceName> >> XML<http://api.geonames.org/findNearbyPlaceName?lat=47.3&lng=9&username=demo&style=full> >> JSON 12 >> findNearbyPostalCodes<http://www.geonames.org/export/web-services.html#findNearbyPostalCodes> >> XML<http://api.geonames.org/findNearbyPostalCodes?postalcode=8775&country=CH&radius=10&username=demo&style=full> >> JSON 13 >> findNearbyStreets<http://www.geonames.org/maps/us-reverse-geocoder.html#findNearbyStreets> >> >> (US)XML<http://api.geonames.org/findNearbyStreets?lat=37.451&lng=-122.18&username=demo&style=full> >> JSON 14 >> findNearbyStreetsOSM<http://www.geonames.org/maps/osm-reverse-geocoder.html#findNearbyStreetsOSM> >> XML<http://api.geonames.org/findNearbyStreetsOSM?lat=37.451&lng=-122.18&username=demo&style=full> >> JSON >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> 17 >> findNearestAddress<http://www.geonames.org/maps/us-reverse-geocoder.html#findNearestAddress> >> >> (US)XML<http://api.geonames.org/findNearestAddress?lat=37.451&lng=-122.18&username=demo&style=full> >> JSON 18 >> findNearestIntersection<http://www.geonames.org/maps/us-reverse-geocoder.html#findNearestIntersection> >> >> (US)XML<http://api.geonames.org/findNearestIntersection?lat=37.451&lng=-122.18&username=demo&style=full> >> JSON >> >> >> >> >> >> >> 27postalCodeCountryInfo<http://www.geonames.org/export/web-services.html#postalCodeCountryInfo> >> XML<http://api.geonames.org/postalCodeCountryInfo?&username=demo&style=full> >> JSON 28 >> postalCodeLookup<http://www.geonames.org/export/web-services.html#postalCodeLookupJSON> >> JSON 29 >> postalCodeSearch<http://www.geonames.org/export/web-services.html#postalCodeSearch> >> XML<http://api.geonames.org/postalCodeSearch?postalcode=9011&maxRows=10&username=demo&style=full> >> JSON >> >> >> >> >> Any thoughts or comments on this? >> >> Thanks, >> Manoj >> >> -- >> Manoj Fernando >> Director - Solutions Architecture >> >> Contact: >> LK - +94 112 145345 >> Mob: +94 773 759340 >> www.wso2.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Architecture mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/architecture >> >> > > > -- > > Best Regards, > > Malaka Silva > Senior Tech Lead > M: +94 777 219 791 > Tel : 94 11 214 5345 > Fax :94 11 2145300 > Skype : malaka.sampath.silva > LinkedIn : http://www.linkedin.com/pub/malaka-silva/6/33/77 > Blog : http://mrmalakasilva.blogspot.com/ > > WSO2, Inc. > lean . enterprise . middleware > http://www.wso2.com/ > http://www.wso2.com/about/team/malaka-silva/<http://wso2.com/about/team/malaka-silva/> > > Save a tree -Conserve nature & Save the world for your future. Print this > email only if it is absolutely necessary. > > _______________________________________________ > Architecture mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/architecture > > -- Manoj Fernando Director - Solutions Architecture Contact: LK - +94 112 145345 Mob: +94 773 759340 www.wso2.com
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