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[Farai Mutero <fmutero@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ok, great stuff. Thanks Morten!


On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 8:07 PM, Morten Olav Hansen <mortenoh@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Accessing the API is just as simple as before, we never defaulted to a
> JSON browsable API before. What we did, is to remove the old (and outdated)
> HTML rendering. For app developer, there should be no difference (unless
> you were parsing the HTML, but I hope you didn't). JSON is just as
> supported as before, using either an extension (.json) or using the accept
> header (application/json). For your app, there should be no difference.
>
> For browsing, we will provide an app shortly after release.
>
> --
> Morten
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 12:23 AM, Farai Mutero <fmutero@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi Guys
>>
>> I must say, seconding what Knut has pointed out, I'm a bit worried by
>> this development especially from a rapid app development perspective. I for
>> one, am totally reliant on the json Web-API resources and interact with
>> them on a day-to-day basis. So if accessing web-api *json* resources is
>> becoming increasingly harder, what's the alternative for app developers?
>> I'm sorry guys for being ridiculous, but please help me out?
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Farai
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Much though I have to love json, this does seem to be a case where
>>> maintaining an xml stylesheet is the cleanest separation of form and
>>> content.
>>>
>>> What about adding an xml processing instruction to the xml like:
>>>
>>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="<some base url>/dxf2html.xsl"?><document>
>>>   ...</document>
>>>
>>>
>>> This will have no effect on consuming the xml normally (except for
>>> making it one line longer) but will allow a browser to render it nicely.
>>>
>>> Of course dxf2html.xsl would have to be maintained.  It could be
>>> provided by an app.  Or the whole url could be just a system setting.  Then
>>> if the setting exists the processing instruction is emitted, if not then
>>> its not.  Or there is a basic functionality which can be overridden by an
>>> app ...
>>>
>>>
>>> On 14 July 2014 05:19, Morten Olav Hansen <mortenoh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Of course we could do that, but that would take away part of the
>>>> restfulness of the API. I don't think we should change the way our links
>>>> works, just because a plugin supports making http://* into real links.
>>>> I understand that it is a bit harder to browse the API right now, but that
>>>> should be fixed soon. We don't have to wait for 2.17 to be released for
>>>> this, it could easily live as an external app, it shouldn't take long to
>>>> develop something like that.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Morten
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> So you can't just add .json to these links?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 6:04 AM, Morten Olav Hansen <
>>>>> mortenoh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> We do expose JSON as the default, if you send header "Accept: */*"
>>>>>> that would return a JSON result. Problem is that the browser is usually
>>>>>> sending something like "Accept: text/html, application/xml, ....." so since
>>>>>> it has no match for text/html, it will go to application/xml.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We are hoping to provide an API browser app for 2.17.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Morten
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 7:25 AM, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> A shortcut to making an app would be if we exposed .json by default
>>>>>>> instead of XML:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://apps.dhis2.org/dev/api/resources.json has nicely clickable
>>>>>>> links if the user has something like JSONView installed:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jsonview/chklaanhfefbnpoihckbnefhakgolnmc
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Knut
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 8:18 PM, Lars Helge Øverland <
>>>>>>> larshelge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> yes its intentional. The HTML templates were static and too much
>>>>>>>> hassle to keep in synch with the model.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> App idea: make an app that renders a nice, linked HTML-view for all
>>>>>>>> resources based on the json resources.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Lars
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Or is there just a missing style file:
>>>>>>>>> This XML file does not appear to have any style information
>>>>>>>>> associated with it
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>>> When I browse the API in 2.16, I seem to get XM
>>>>>>>>>> https://apps.dhis2.org/dev/api/resources
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> instead of HTML, like it was in 2.15
>>>>>>>>>> https://apps.dhis2.org/demo/api/resources
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Is this intentional?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>>> Knut Staring
>>>>>>>>>> Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo
>>>>>>>>>> +4791880522
>>>>>>>>>> http://dhis2.org
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>> Knut Staring
>>>>>>>>> Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo
>>>>>>>>> +4791880522
>>>>>>>>> http://dhis2.org
>>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>> Knut Staring
>>>>>>> Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo
>>>>>>> +4791880522
>>>>>>> http://dhis2.org
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Knut Staring
>>>>> Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo
>>>>> +4791880522
>>>>> http://dhis2.org
>>>>>
>>>>
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>> Farai Mutero
>>
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Farai Mutero