ReconToolkit Java library

Hello all,

OpenRefine's Java code to query reconciliation services is in a pretty 
bad state. For a while, I have wanted to start a Java library to query 
reconciliation services, which OpenRefine could depend on instead.

I started a draft here:
https://github.com/wetneb/ReconToolkit

For now it only contains the basic classes to represent objects involved 
in the reconciliation API, with their JSON serialization. The HTTP layer 
remains to be written.

I can also imagine that this becomes a basis to build reconciliation 
services, not just reconciliation clients.

At this stage every choice I have made so far can easily be reversed, so 
do not hesitate to give honest feedback. Contributions are of course 
welcome (and I would be happy to host the repo elsewhere than in my 
personal GitHub account.)

Writing this code from scratch is a good exercise to notice in which 
ways the current API is unnatural (for instance, discrepancies of 
serialization depending on the context…)

Also, I would very much welcome something similar in Javascript, which 
could also be used in OpenRefine's frontend (for instance to query 
suggest services).

Best,
Antonin

Received on Friday, 12 August 2022 11:27:55 UTC