Re: [In Development] RESTful API for LMS

mherger wrote: 
> 
> 
> What feature set would you have required? I would agree that it can 
> clearly be overwhelming.
> 
Yes, it wasn't so much that I couldn't use the CLI, it was that I didn't
want it to be the focus of my effort. It was more that it was that that
triggered the thought that there was a need.

mherger wrote: 
> 
> Trust me: I thought of doing this myself before! :-)
> 
> I mostly never tried it because it was more of a nerd's urge rather than
> 
> an actual need to do it.
> 

There is always that risk :-), but I'm enjoying it so far so I'll carry
on with the urge :-)

mherger wrote: 
> 
> What I'd recommend is that you translate as much as possible into CLI 
> commands. Eg. there's no need to re-implement the player status 
> response, which certainly then would be different from what users might 
> have expected or see in different applications. Better use the built-in 
> "status" query to make sure you get the same raw data, then transform 
> this into whatever you think should be the response.
> 
Sure, I'll try and keep it simple.  I did briefly look at the
statusquery, but I was concerned that it looked specifically engineered
to support tightly coupled user interfaces, and I didn't want to fall
into a trap of exposing the same out of a REST API.  I'll look again.

mherger wrote: 
> 
> And instead of restapi I'd probably just use the api path. It's not 
> taken yet, is it?...
> 
good point, I'll change it.

mherger wrote: 
> 
> Would I would put rather far down the list is full data browsing. This 
> is so complicated with the various browse modes, all vs. primary artists
> 
> only, compilations etc. it might be hard to make this return the 
> expected results without adding support for the same set of query 
> parameters.
> 
Yes, good point, I've tried to put that to the back of my mind for the
moment so I could get started :-)



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