RE: Beagle XML/Unix API & Java

[<sjeanjean ext orange-ftgroup com>]

Hi All,

I have captured the XML message when using the Beagle Web. From this XML, I tried to write an XML Schema. The XSD file is attached, what do you think about this schema ? Is it well written ?
Then, I used Jaxb to generate the Java Binding Classes (ResponseWrapper.java).

In SearchManager.java, it's a sample to use the API with Java.

Stéphane

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De : Joe Shaw [mailto:joe joeshaw org] 
Envoyé : lundi 22 février 2010 15:27
À : zze-BLB JEANJEAN S ext RD-BIZZ-SOP
Cc : dashboard-hackers gnome org
Objet : Re: Beagle XML/Unix API

Hi,

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 8:57 AM,  <sjeanjean ext orange-ftgroup com> wrote:
> Is there any documentation about the Beagle XML/Unix API, please ? I 
> think it's used by the web user interface.

There's no documentation for it, sadly.  Generally apps should use either the C# classes or one of the C-based language bindings.  If you're looking to implement a client library yourself, building it on top of the C one is the easiest as it is an easily-bindable GObject-based API.

If you can't go one of these routes for whatever reason, your best bet is to look at the C code itself.  It's fairly simply broken into request and response classes, and I think the XML generation in it is pretty clean:

http://git.gnome.org/browse/beagle/tree/libbeagle/beagle

The socat tool might also be helpful to you, as you can wedge yourself in as a man-in-the-middle and watch the traffic going by.

Joe

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