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[Manish Sinha <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

For the last few days I have been working on creating Mono/.NET client 
wrappers on Launchpad API.

I love Python but my day job involves a lot of C# coding, so I thought 
it would be good to have multiple client wrapper for this API so that 
the potential of Launchpad can be exploited to the maximum. I know many 
people can be skeptical of Mono, but as a programmer I wanted even Mono 
developers of Windows developers on C#.NET to start using Launchpad or 
even better host their Open Source Projects on this platform.

Let me explain Aurthur about the project:

=wadlsharp=
Launchpad provides a WADL file describing the API for the web-service. I 
wrote a WADL->C# converter called wadlsharp[1] . Actually with minor 
modifications it can even create VB code but that is not the current 
target. wadlsharp is just a library and I am yet to write it's 
documentation. I created wadlsharp just to create the C# client code so 
that customizing the generated C# code can as easy as possible. I have 
released v0.1 of wadlsharp. Get the code from bzr[2] or download the 
tarball[3]

=LpSharp=
Using the generated C# code, I have completed implementation of OAuth 
specific to LP. For all the HTTP methods supported in Launchpad - GET, 
POST, PUT, PATCH and DELETE, I have implemented GET as of now. The 
project is still under development, but I wanted to send a mail to 
inform everyone that such an effort is underway and they can send their 
comments using which I can prevent serious design mistakes or even 
accept patches for this project. The name of this project is Launchpad#[4]

I have already take the permission for using the word Launchpad which is 
a trademark of Canonical.

I would humbly request everyone to look at the source code and send 
their valuable feedback so that I can make it better. Both the projects 
are licensed under MIT / X11 / Expat license

[1] https://launchpad.net/wadlsharp
[2] https://code.launchpad.net/~manishsinha/wadlsharp/trunk
[3] 
http://launchpad.net/wadlsharp/trunk/release-v0.1/+download/LpNet.WadlSharp.Common.tar
[4] https://launchpad.net/lpsharp/


CCing all the Canonical devs with whom I have talked earlier when I was 
about to start working on LpSharp (Launchpad#)

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Manish Sinha
http://launchpad.net/~manishsinha