Re: My google summer of code project. Nautilus: Add support to Google docs

["saunierthibault gmail com" <saunierthibault gmail com>]

Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 20:09 +0100, saunierthibault gmail com wrote:
>   
> > Hello,
> >
> >     I am Thibault Saunier, a computer science student in an
> > engineering school (EPSI Lyon).  I am very interested by participating
> > in the gnome soc 2009. So I have an idea for my project which I am
> > describing in the document I will send for my application. But as you
> > say on gnome website it is better to ask your opinion about the
> > project first. So here is my idea:
> >
> > Nautilus: Add support to Google docs
> >       * Benefits: Let users handle (copy, paste...) their Google Docs
> >         with nautilus. They would also be able to edit them with any
> >         word/spreadsheet/presentation processor.
> >       * Requirements: Since I am going to use GVFS, I will use the C
> >         programming language (I have been learning this language for 3
> >         years now and can manage with this). I will also use the Gdata
> >         API which permit to manage google docs files on client
> >         applications.
> >       * Description: Write the google docs support in GVFS. Write code
> >         in nautilus to add the possibility to connect to google docs
> >         thanks to the 'fiile -> connect to server' dialogBox.
> >         
> >         
> >     I rode on the Google Advice for student web-page that it is better
> > to send my application document to some people before applying, so if
> > anyone of you is interesting by reading it, I would be glade to send
> > it to you!
> >     
>
> Sounds like a useful project. 
>
> What kind of protocol does google docs use for client file access?
The Google-doc API (gdata) is based on HTTP requests. For example to get 
the list of documents, you need to send a GET request to
http://docs.google.com/feeds/documents/private/full and it returns an 
XML file describing all folders/documents the logged user has on-line...