Hey, I'd appreciate it if the protocol could be documented on a wiki (insert shameless plug for http://wavecompass.net/) so that I can come along and write implementations in other languages such as Ruby.
Thanks! --danopia On Dec 1, 3:36 am, Silicon Dragon <sdr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Wave API users, > > On the Begging for the Wave Client protocol > specs<https://wave.google.com/wave/#restored:wave:googlewave.com!w%252B5445...>wave, > > Lars wrote: > > *"...We **just** don't have the resources to work on a stable server-client > > > protocol right now, much as we'd love to and much as we are aware what > > wonderful things could come out of such a thing.* > > *If others in the open source community start an effort like that we will > take part best we can and consider then supporting such a protocol > ourselves.* > > *For now, all our efforts (and then some!) are going towards the > server-server protocol, which still needs lots and lots of work. (Including > open sourcing a lot more of our code to make it realisitc for others to > build wave systems...)** ."* > > Seeing how there is a considerable developer interest, we have started an > *open > source* effort to create a native python implementation of the Google Wave > server-client "protocol". > The goal of the project is to reproduce the most common operations available > to all web clients: wave reading, channel stream reading, and possibly > writing later on. > > (To clarify here: the "protocol" is the JSON mess via which browsers are > currently communicating with the Google Wave servers -this way, no extra > efforts from the Wave team is necessary) > > This is a non-official implementation; as the protocol is subject to > changes, it might be broken, or unavailable at any time; but we will make a > best effort in keeping it up-to-date with the latest developments. > > Sources <http://github.com/waverz/waveclient>, and Issue > tracker<http://github.com/waverz/waveclient/issues>available via > github; licensed under BSD. > > *We are looking for volunteers!* If you have a cool project idea, which the > current limitations of the available wave APIs doesn't allow for, or want to > extend a project of yours, see the proto > wave<https://wave.google.com/wave/#restored:wave:googlewave.com!w%252B_7o7...> > . > > -SDr -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Wave API" group. To post to this group, send email to google-wave-...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-wave-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-wave-api?hl=en.
