Correct. I presented a hypothetical issue of a hypothetical solution. Abraham
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 05:07, Rich <rhyl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Except RT, Geo and Lists are all in the version 1 API directory > > On Dec 18, 4:43 am, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > So say Geo is version 3, RT is version 4 and Lists is version 5. All of > > which are still in beta. If something goes wrong with Geo do they revert > to > > 2 and disable RTs and Lists? > > > > Abraham > > > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 21:03, Dewald Pretorius <dpr...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Josh, > > > > > This will not protect us against a case where something central to > > > Twitter functioning malfunctions, but it will protect us against new > > > or changed features malfunctioning. > > > > > Dewald > > > > > On Dec 17, 10:45 pm, Josh Roesslein <jroessl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I am not sure how beneficial this would really be. Versioning from > > > > what I understand is for changes to the > > > > API that might break applications that have not yet updated. It > > > > wouldn't really provide any security against bugs/quirks > > > > in Twitter's backend which can cause downtime. So even older versions > > > > might be affected just as much as newer versions because > > > > down under they both use the same code, its just exposed differently > > > > from version to version. > > > > > > I have no idea how things work under the covers so maybe this could > > > > work. I'd take any security against down time I can get. :) > > > > > > Josh > > > > > > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Dewald Pretorius <dpr...@gmail.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > The yo-yo ride of the retweet API gave me this idea. It depends on > > > > > proper versioning of the API by Twitter. > > > > > > > Twitter creates an API call that returns the current working API > > > > > version. We query that method and use that version of the API for > our > > > > > calls. > > > > > > > If something goes down, Twitter simply pushes out the version > number > > > > > of an older API version, which is still working correctly. Our > systems > > > > > will then automatically fall back to using that older version, > until > > > > > Twitter again pushes out the new version number when it's back > online. > > > > > > > Dewald > > > > -- > > Abraham Williams | Awesome Lists |http://bit.ly/sprout608 > > Project | Intersect |http://intersect.labs.poseurtech.com > > Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham > > This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. > > Sent from Bloomington, IN, United States > -- Abraham Williams | Awesome Lists | http://bit.ly/sprout608 Project | Intersect | http://intersect.labs.poseurtech.com Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Bloomington, IN, United States