RE: SOAP Blogging API
Don Box has a new
weblog home
. Meanwhile, it looks like he
and
ChrisAn are conspiring on a new
SOAP based blogger API
. My hope (and
expectations, given that Don and I chatted on this) is that what emerges is an
API that involves literally sending RSS items. Something along the lines of what
I
outlined
in the
Evolution of the Weblog APIs
.
[Sam Ruby]
Yeah, I mused about
this once also. I even talked about it a bit on the bloggerDev list at
one point, trying to stir up some thoughts on it. Unfortunately that list is
pretty dead, so there wasn't much discussion going on.
FWIW, I totally agree with Sam. A SOAP based API wouldn't need to be
anything too fancy and should really take a doc literal approach where the data
returned pertaining to posts is based around the RSS 2.0 spec. You could embed
implementation specific details into the RSS document as long as your custom
elements/attributes are namespace prefixed, which should be no problem.
As far as the login parameters that are part of the current blogger API declarations,
those should be factored out of the individual APIs and instead be handled as SOAP
headers with the server deciding which kind of security specs it wants to
support. There can of course be a simple default security spec drafted up, but
more advanced implementations might want to support richer
forms of security.