[Kde-imaging] New kipi plugin: export to shwup.com

[Gilles Caulier]

2009/10/23 Timothee Groleau <kde at timotheegroleau.com>:
> Hi all,

Hi,

>
> I just completed a new kipi plugin: an export tool for an online media hosting
> site (shwup.com) produced by my current company (muvee).

Great...

>
> The plugin is working so far and I wanted to share some information about
> it, get your feedback, and check with you on the procedure to qualify it and
> possibly include it as a part of the official plugin distribution.

I will review the code before to include it to official KDE svn repository

>
> Firstly, about shwup.com: shwup.com is a media sharing site where group of
> people create and co-own media albums, such that everyone's medias for a given
> event/trip/vacation are kept in one place. Albums are always private and only
> accessible to their members. shwup.com exposes a REST based API, very similar
> to that of Amazon's AWS

ok
.
>
> The shwup kipi plugin takes code *heavily* from the facebook export plugin. In
> fact a large part of it is copy paste, with minor tweaks here and there (the
> biggest changes being the removal of the import code and of course a specific
> shwup connector class). The facebook code itself was taken from kipi-plugins
> 0.6.0

It's not possible to merge both, or shwup, at least interface ? Also
this will reduce plugins to load at startup...

>
> The plugin introduces a dependency to QCA2 because the authentication system
> of shwup.com requires support for md5, sha1. and hmac(sha1). I have modified
> the kipi cmake file to search for that dependency and compile the shwup plugin
> only if it is found.

This is not possible to use KDE4 api for that (i'm not sure if code is
available in kdelibs to support md5, sha1, etc...)
The idea is to reduce external dependencies of course.


>
> The plugin itself can do more or less what the facebook plugin can do:
> * let a user log in to shwup.com
> * list the current available albums to upload media to
> * create a new album
> * downscale large images before upload
> * raw files are supported via kdcraw (same as facebook plugin)
>
>
> I am using the plugin for myself (I am a kPhotoalbum user), and I am willing
> to be a maintainer for it. Although, I currently work for muvee, this is my
> own pet project that I am doing mostly in my free time.

If you want to be the maintainer, as code will be hosted to KDE
reprository, you need a developper account for that. Look there for
details :

http://techbase.kde.org/Contribute/Get_a_SVN_Account

>
> I'm not sure how credits and copyrights should be attributed, so in the files
> that I modified from the facebook plugin, I left the original copyright
> owner's name. Let me know if that's OK.

Let's original and add your one. It's GPL rules

>
> I have placed the plugin source with modified kipi 0.6.0 cmake file here. It
> works in the 0.6.0 sources. Tested on gentoo system with KDE 4.3.2, with
> Gwenview and Kphotoalbum:
> http://timotheegroleau.com/shwup-for-kipi-plugins-0.6.0.tar.bz2
>
>
> Let me know if you have any feedback, and if you think such a plugin can be
> accepted.

sure

>
> A final disclaimer: I am a beginner at C++ and this is my first Qt/KDE-based
> project. Please bear with me on the quality of the code :/ . Any feedback and
> suggestions to make the project better would be greatly appreciated.
>

welcome.

Gilles Caulier