Hi Stefan, On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 07:39:14AM +0200, Stefan Tilkov wrote: > Mark Pilgrim (http://diveintomark.org/projects) has numerous small > Python wrappers around popular "Web APIs". They don't do much you > couldn't do yourself, but they still provide a simplified view that > makes them very easy to use. > > Code like this is IMO the standard example of what one could have > generated from a machine-readable description. Really? I wouldn't have thought so. Let's take a closer look... In PyAmazon[1] for example, I see code which basically hides the HTTP interface from a developer behind a custom API of "browseBestSellers", "searchBy*", and "searchSimilar" operations. While this API may very well be useful for developers, it's not something that a service provider will provide, since they have no stake in what particular local API any consumer of their service uses. I mean, I assume that instances of this description language we're talking about, would be something that service developers would publish, right? [1] http://www.josephson.org/projects/pyamazon/ Mark. -- Mark Baker. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.ca Coactus; Web-inspired integration strategies http://www.coactus.comReceived on Wednesday, 15 June 2005 03:48:17 GMT
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