On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 12:23 AM, Pongrácz István <[email protected]
> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Sorry for my late reply :)
>
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> Feladó: "Chris Travers" <[email protected]>
> Címzett: "Development discussion for LedgerSMB" <
> [email protected]>
> Dátum: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 18:56:49 -0700
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>
> To be more specific:
>
> I use jitterbit community edition to make integration tasks. I connect to
> Magento using its WSDL interface, which is relatively easy to do, without
> knowing the internals of Magento (php, javascript, database etc.). To
> access data on Magento, I had not necessary to modify the code of Magento
> in any way, so, I can access from one application (jitterbit) to any
> Magento on the world via internet.
>
> So, my vision with lsmb would be similar: to access a (relatively) simple
> interface, avoid any code modification, to access information and
> manipulating them. That is why I asked my original question, is there any
> web api or similar tool to access to lsmb.
>
We should still all be in contact about developing integration-friendly
approaches. After all this *is* the key to LedgerSMB's long-term success.
> After reading your replies, I guess there is no such an interface yet
> available in the mainline code, so, it is necessary to find a workaround or
> mode.
>
> As I am getting familiar with jitterbit, I plan to use this tool in the
> future, instead of writing own code. Some reasons:
>
> - it can access to Postgresql or Mysql directly
> - can access web service (WSDL) interfaces
> - file share (ftp, smb)
> - transformations etc.
>
> So, in this case I can see the following limits and scenario:
>
> - to use lsmb with jitterbit, it is necessary to access to the DB
> directly and dig out the necessary data (read) or write any data into,
>
> Use stored procedures where you can, if Jitterbit supports this. If it
doesn't we should write stored procedures to support it. That way folks
are able to share efforts. The more we can share efforts here, the
better. This will also help with 1.5/1.6 development too.
>
> - as every installation could have different "layouts" (warehouses,
> taxes, accounts, whatever, workflow, groups etc.) to access a specific
> database, will be necessary to get and set global parameters (not clear yet
> for me either, but based on my Magento experience, it will be necessary to
> determine some variables, for example the ID of the default warehouse,
> group etc.)
>
> Right.
Best Wishes,
Chris Travers
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