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[Luca Invernizzi <invernizzi.l@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Izidor Matušov
<izidor.matusov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Germán,
>
> Am 10.11.2011 01:44, schrieb Germán Gutiérrez:
>>
>> Izidor, looks like you are the master in this, any helloworld.py
>> equivalent in backend world?
>
> Unfortunately, there is no well-written documentation or any helloworld.
> (The feature was still not released).
>
> I recommend you to get
>
> bzr branch lp:~gtg-contributors/gtg/google_tasks
>
> and look at backends for launchpad and google tasks. They are in general
> very similar although they do different things. (Google Tasks synchronize
> your tasks, launchpad only imports tasks)
>
> Luca: I was thinking about lowering the barrier for writing a new backend.
> There is a lot of redundant code for every backend (they are pretty much the
> same). What about making more high level interface so "user programmer" just
> provides the minimum of information (authenticate yourself, this is list of
> remote tasks, add to GTG tasks which you do not have, give me tasks, that
> has changed or were deleted so I can update them on server) I think it is
> sufficient to specify only those 3 things and details can be solved by
> internal, high-level interface. The goal might be to write a brand new,
> simple backend under 99 lines of code. What do you say? Do you want to work
> on it at the hackathon on 26th?

That's an interesting idea. There is an obvious trade-off between
simplicity and generality,
but we could provide this simple interface for most web-based backends
(which share lots of similarities), and a more general one for the
others.