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[Ricardo Kirkner <ricardo.kirkner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Most of the interaction will be with MyApps, but the final upload has to go
to Click-Updown, because uploading to MyApps directly is a waste of
resources (you'd double up the time and total bandwidth required + causing
more unnecessary strain on the MyApps servers if we have to proxy all
uploads through it).


On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 9:34 AM, Łukasz Czyżykowski <
lukasz.czyzykowski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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 <ricardo.kirkner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>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
>>
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