Re: ISPMAN API

Hi Serving,

Serving wrote:

>I wonder if there is an API for ispman ?  There was a SOAP server attempt about 2 years ago by Atif that was abandoned for lack of general interest. 
>
>Any chance this can be revived and documented so that external apps can be written that interface successfully with ispman? I am thinking about billing, signup, GUIs and such. 
>  
>
Since everything in ISPMan interfaces using the LDAP API, any external 
apps *could* also talk to ISPMan by digging directly into LDAP. Most 
major development platforms such as Java, .NET, Perl, PHP, etc all 
support LDAP.

That said, I am a big fan of Web Services. To make it easier to external 
systems to interface with ISPman, having some sort of XML-RPC or SOAP 
interface is better. That way systems integrating (such as billing) 
don't need to to understand all the glory details of the LDAP schema - 
just need to know the namespace, method and parameters to call.

It is a bit of work to set this up, but on the other hand it's not 
rocket science. It's something my billing department has been asking me 
for (system automation, better reporting, automatic synchronization with 
other databases). It's #3 or #2 on my list of stuff to do, but 
unfortunately there's tons of stuff in #1  :P  I imagine there's more 
people on this mailing list in this same situation...

Wim




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