Some questions about the API

howdy,

I am on the JOGI Team that is currently trying to write a Java API for
accessing OGo via XML-RPC;
There should be some release this or next week, but before that, we need
some information that we cannot gather from the supplied documentation;
We have been using the german SKYRIX XML-RPC documentation, but have found
it lacking in some areas. Our questions:

 - What is this "number" that is referred to in the doc some of the XMLRPC
calls (eg. account.getByNumber); is this supposed to be the ID, or is
this
something completely different?

 - ID:
  +does every document type have an ID? it seems like about all
parts of the XML-RPC have an *.fetchIds or *.getByID call, except for
project.*;
  + is this ID unique for each document or just for a document type; ie. can
2 documents have the same ID if they are eg. an Account and an Appointment?
  + what is the ID or what is it supposed to contain? Some XMLRPC sample
calls simply pass a number as argument, whereas others pass an URI that
contains the ID number;

 - Account:
   + does an Account have a "name" field? the example calls suggest that,
but it does not seem correct, or at least the description of the Account
document does not show it;
   + is there an easy way to get from an Account to a Person document?
the only possibility I can think of would be some query like
 'fetchPerson("login like xyz")' (where xyz is the login);
   + does every Account have an associated Person document?

 - Enterprise: what fields does this document contain? There is no
description of it in the documentation;

 - FetchSpecification: this name is used throughout the doc as a type for
argument; but for Account, Person, etc. it is basically a document with a
 "qualifier" and a "sortOrdering" field; BUT for Appointment (in its
fetch* functions) it is a document with at least a "startDate" and/or an
"endDate" field;
I have looked at the WebObjects documentation of some classes, and I found
the EOFetchSpecification class, which looks like the first kind (qualifier
and sortOrdering) fields);


OK, quite a lot of questions; but I hope someone of the OGo crew can
answer them;

murphee


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