Why not limit the interaction to just MyApps, and let devportal to worry about interacting with updown?
On 2 September 2013 15:02, Ricardo Kirkner <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'd like to start the work to allow uploading click packages to the > AppStore directly from within the SDK by proposing some ideas and getting > feedback on them. > > The current goal, as we understand it is to: > - allow developers to upload a new click package directly from the SDK > - allow developers to upload an update to an existing click app directly > from the SDK > > In order to meet these initial goals I propose the following approach: > > 1. Provide an API in the Click-Updown service that > - allows uploading a click app > - is authenticated > - will verify the uploaders credentials to correspond to an existing > Ubuntu One account > - will verify the requested application already exists in the MyApps > catalog > - will verify that the uploader is the application owner (or has the > equivalent permissions) > > 2. Write a reference implementation library that knows how to interact with > - the Ubuntu One account API to validate the user's credentials and embed > them properly into the upload request > - the Click-Updown API to submit the upload request > > 3. Write a reference implementation script that will allow simple > uploading of click packages from the CLI > > Limitations > ---------------- > > In the first iteration, the click app must already exist in the MyApps > catalog, and the user will be requested to create it through the web if > that is not the case. In future iterations this might be extended to allow > registering the app directly from within the SDK. > > The initial version of these APIs will only support uploading of click > packages, but not publishing them automatically. Changes the to state of a > click app must be performed by following the existing web-based review > flows. > > > Let me know what you think of this and of any other details that might be > relevant to provide the simplest and most useful experience to developers. > > Ricardo > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-appstore-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-appstore-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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