On Fri, 8 May 2015, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
Hello,
Some of you may have noticed that a package 'Google APis' has been added to
FPC in subversion.
These contain the Google APIs as generated from the Google Discovery
Service (~70 APIS).
I am of the opinion that such Web APIs have meanwhile the same importance
as the native APIS that make up the desktop; the world is increasingly
connected to Internet, and Google, MS Office365 apis (and many others) will
become more and more part of the toolset of a programmer.
Are these really APIs, i.e. an interface between an application program and a
local library, or are they actually communication protocols?
https://xkcd.com/1481/ applies.
This is a sterile distinction. It is the only way to communicate with Google.
it is, for all practical purposes, the API.
They also call it the API, for good reason.
Perhaps FPC/Lazarus, which is already a large project, should package things
which take a URI as a parameter and return HTML/XML/JSON etc. separately.
No. For me, this is at the same level as the Win32 headers or Mac OS headers.
Whether there is a protocol involved or not is irrelevant for me.
It's about making functionality available.
Also there's the risk that Google will change or discontinue a service
arbitrarily. They don't exactly have a good record in that area.
This is web programming. Things change fast. I am aware of this.
The files are generated using a tool, and the tool is also in SVN.
Michael.
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