Just finished the XMLPRC and REST APIs for f8p.

Being my first live implementations of either type of API, I learned quite a bit.

The XMLRPC was a breeze since foundation is already baked into Rails. Figuring out how to piggyback REST on top of it was a bit more challenging.

1. The methods are:

Create Link expects a “path”, like http://speedymac.com

Find Link expects the link “id”, like 7vkkxg

Find Uses From Link expects the link “id”, like 7vkkxg

1. XMLRPC resides at:

• http://fp8.com/backend/api

1. REST calls are as follows:

• http://f8p.com/backend/create_link
• http://f8p.com/backend/find_link
• http://f8p.com/backend/find\_uses\_from\_link

All responses should be well-formed xml.

1. Usage examples:

1. REST

   curl -d path=’http://speedymac.com’ -X POST http://f8p.com/backend/create_link

   < ?xml version=”1.0” encoding=”UTF-8”?> http://f8p.com/e1gdd1

   curl -d id=’e1gdd1’ -X POST http://f8p.com/backend/find_link

   < ?xml version=”1.0” encoding=”UTF-8”?>http://speedymac.com

   curl -d id=’e1gdd1’ -X POST http://f8p.com/backend/find_uses_from_link

   < ?xml version=”1.0” encoding=”UTF-8”?>5

1. XMLRPC

   curl -d ‘< ?xml version=”1.0” ?>CreateLinkhttp://speedymac.com’ -H “Content-Type: text/xml” -X POST http://f8p.com/backend/api

   < ?xml version=”1.0” ?>http://f8p.com/e1gdd1

   curl -d ‘< ?xml version=”1.0” ?>FindLinke1gdd1’ -H “Content-Type: text/xml” -X POST http://f8p.com/backend/api

   < ?xml version=”1.0” ?>http://speedymac.com

   curl -d ‘< ?xml version=”1.0” ?>FindUsesFromLinke1gdd1’ -H “Content-Type: text/xml” -X POST http://f8p.com/backend/api

   < ?xml version=”1.0” ?>5