Hi all, What is the current status of (REST) APIs and import functionality in SMW?
As some of you might have noticed, I have been working a bit lately on trying to finish the RDFIO extension to a workable state, efter many years. At the same time, haing gone, over the last couple of years, to a very green coder-wannabe, to having at least some year of working coding experience, I start to get some perspective of what was the situation before we started developing RDFIO, and what would have been a more optimal path: 1. I realize Denny's SMWWriter was already very much operating in the way one would want for this kind of module (exposed via the MediaWiki REST API). 2. Thus, I wish I would have rather extended that with the SPARQL functionality of the current RDFIO extension, and worked to drop the dependency on the POM module. Instead, by lack of overview of things, I went away to create specialized Special pages for everything (RDF Import, SPARQL endpoint, and recently SPARQL endpoint copy / replication), and basically made RDFIO into an add-on hack over how SMW normally works. It turns out I simply haven't seen the big picture clear enough to see how things should have been done from the start, and to appreciate Denny's work on this already :P So, when looking into the future, I would like to hear your thoughts on the current situation regarding external APIs, and import functionality, in SMW, and in which direction you would be interested to work? Personally, while RDFIO is now there and functionality starts to be reasonably stable*, I would love to have these things more packaged like how the SMWWriter extension was (mostly exposing functionality via MW API), and possibly integrated in the SMW core and less like how it is now, with RDFIO as a separate box, doing it's stuff it's own way. For the move towards using MW API more, that would quite probably be the future plans for RDFIO, if I can find an opportunity to continue on it. A move towards SMW core of similar functionality (probably by newly written code, and provided that is a thinkable direction for the core devs), would most probably take a more skilled programmer / set of programmers, than me alone, and I'm thus interested to hear what you think about all this? Cheers // Samuel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60135031&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Semediawiki-devel mailing list Semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel
