Re: beagled Web Service Interface prototype working!

["Vijay KN" <knvijay novell com>]

Daniele,
 
I agree - these are some cool ideas. The distributed environment can
allow peer-to-peer searching of Beagle services, within collaboration
teams in an intranet and with some security support added, sharing
information across Beagle services on the Internet.  I have posted the
web service code on the mailing list. Were you able to install and get
it working ?
 
I will look into the mDNSResponder stuff along with other discovery
mechanisms for discovering Beagle Web service. 
 
Keep the ideas coming !
 
thanks 
Vijay

>>> Daniele Bellucci belch linux it> 01/19/05 3:42 AM >>

Good catch ;)

it would be nice to use the web service in a multiuser machine.
For example a linux box with multiple account could expose
this web service, and each user can issue a separate query
on his home directory.

Another cool idea is to use the webservice on a distributed
environment where every machine expose its own web service for beagle.

Web services discovery could be handled by using the excellent
mDNSResponder since there is a plan to full integrate it in the
Gnome Environment, and a .NET binding has been cooded too.

IMHO this should be a great catch.


Il giorno mar, 18-01-2005 alle 12:09 -0700, Vijay KN ha scritto:
> Hi Folks!
> 
> Today I finally got the Web Service interface to beagled working.
The
> Glib dependencies in dbus-sharp library prevented me from using dbus
IPC
> between the web service and beagled - so I had to resort to .Net
> remoting for now. The web service is in the form of beagled.asmx
webapp
> and needs XSP for now (until we add a httpListener within beagled). 
> 
> I have included two web service methods :
> 1. beagledQuery - the full featured interface that can be invoked
via
> SOAP 
> 2. simplebeagledQuery - simpler interface that takes a searchString
> (like best) which can be invoked both via SOAP and a web browser
> (HTTP-Get)
> The web service limits the no. of results to the first 20 results
> received from beagled.
> 
> Attached is a screen-shot of the Firefox browser screen showing
results
> from the web-service for search term 'document'.  A screenshot is
also
> posted at
> http://beaglewiki.org/index.php/BeagleScreenshots?version=26 . Note
> that this 'TestForm' in the browser is more to get a feel for the
> webservice interface - and is not meant to provide browser access to
> beagled per se. 
> 
> I will submit the web service protoype code soon. Comments welcome. 
> 
> cheers
> Vijay
> 
> 
> 
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