Re: [In Development] RESTful API for LMS

erland wrote: 
> Great effort, I’m looking forward to see this evolve. :-)
> 
> It would be great to have a documented API that’s less coupled with the
> user interface, but this will be a big work when you get to the browsing
> API parts unless you are going to re-implement all browsing code in LMS.
> I’ve done that partly in Custom Browse plugin and we did that partly in
> ickStream plugin for local library but supporting it for music services
> (My Apps content) would be really hard. However, if you skip browsing
> part it’s more realistic.
> 
> 
That's interesting to hear your experience, I've put that to the back of
my list for the moment and see what it looks like when I get there!

erland wrote: 
> 
> If you want this to be included in the core LMS distribution I suspect
> there are going to be community developers that are a bit concerned
> regarding supporting another API implementation. We already have CLI and
> JSONRPC (which mostly relies on underlying CLI commands) but expecting
> community developers to support a REST API in core LMS distribution that
> re-implement logic rather than rely on underlying CLI/JSONRPC APIs is
> probably unlikely. 
> 

Yes, I suspect that to the be the case, as intimated in my original
post.  And I have no expectations of anybody,   my goal, as stated, is
just to get it to a level of maturity that it becomes useful/mature
enough to be considered for included in the LMS distribution. But who
knows, it may never get there.  it's just a fun thing to do at thing to
do at the moment, I suspect I'll pick it up and put it down again over
time, and use it to get to know the inner workings of LMS.

erland wrote: 
> 
> The only issue with that is that full functionality clients/apps might
> not want to use an API that requires the user to install an extra
> plugin. You should probably target API support for more simple apps,
> like a player control app or a now playing display app.
> 
Indeed.  I can't argue with that.    I'll plod my way through it and it
will get a larger scope  through time.

erland wrote: 
> 
> I plan to make an RFID based remote control for my child in near future,
> if you have support for volume control and sending a playlist to a
> player by then I might try to use it.
Cool, it will certainly have those features early on. :-)



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