[Kde-silk] Re: Share "Web services" code using KJob's

[Mehrdad Momeny]

Hi,
This could be great, and I like to participate.
Start the project and show me/us some code samples to know how to code! :)

----- Original message -----
> Hi there fellow developers.
> 
> I'm sending this email because we are all working on applications or 
> libraries which have something in common: all of them are interacting in 
> some ways with "Web/Cloud/2.0/whatever" services.
> 
> The idea is to share code in form of KJob's and make them our raw 
> material to build our plugins above them, that way everybody can 
> continue having they plugins (kipi's, choqok, kamoso, recorditnow) or 
> they integrations (KDevelop, Amarok) but we will be all sharing the same 
> code base.
> 
> The project though should remain small and easy to maintain, having that 
> in mind this is what we thought:
> 
> -The project should have containers such Silk::Twitpic::Upload (Upload 
> is the KJob)
> -We should try to maintain retrocompatibility but we should not be hard 
> on that, anyway adding things like "Upload2" should be allowed.
> -We should think of this project like a bag full of code, where the 
> developer chooses what code to use (rather than thinking of it like a 
> complex unified abstract thing).
> 
> By doing this code organization, we can share code between applications 
> in an easy way, for example, if we had all KJob-ified right now, we 
> would be able to unify and use other's implementations:
> 
> Job:                Current implementations:
> Silk::Youtube::Upload···········(Kamoso, recorditnow)
> Silk::Youtube::Download·········(Amarok)
> Silk::Youtube::Search···········(Amarok)
> Silk::Facebook::Upload··········(Kipi)
> Silk::Flcker::Upload············(Kipi, Choqok)
> Silk::Twitpic::Upload···········(Choqok)
> Silk::Picasa::Upload ············(Kipi)
> 
> Aleix and I are willing to start the project, by implementing 
> Youtube::Upload, Facebook::Upload and Twitpic::Upload (by porting choqok 
> uploaders to KJob), but before we start we want to know if you will 
> follow the lead.
> 
> So, What do you think?