[Owncloud] ownCloud 6 Rest API

[Urbani, Edmund]

Hello,

I can confirm that I'd be interested to have a REST API as you describe it 
(especially user/group management functionality). But I am not an owncloud dev, 
so I can't really comment on your questions. Hopefully someone else will...

On 11/13/13 15:56, Vaster Dev wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I believe that there is -or will soon be- a great demand for a complete REST 
> API that will allow developers to integrate core ownCloud functionality (like 
> creating and sharing folders, uploading and deleting documents, registering a 
> user or updating her details etc.) into their apps.
> Right now, there is an external OCS API which one can use to register his 
> routes and expose some data from his app. However this requires writing an 
> ownCloud app and doesn't exist as an autonomous set of REST calls offered by 
> ownCloud core.
> The only attempt on this direction is the OCS Share Api which gives access to 
> file/folder sharing functionality from an external application. If someone 
> wants to perform other types of operations on files & folders he will have to 
> use webDav.
>
> First of all, am I missing something? Is the one I describe more or less the 
> current situation?
> If yes, in my opinion, there is a great need for at least the following REST 
> calls:
>
> - Create a user/group
> - Update user details
> - Insert/Delete/List user(s) from group(s)
> - Delete a user/group
> - Check if user/group exists (this route already exists for users)
> - List all users/groups
> - Get user/group information
> - List folders
> - List files inside a folder
> - Create a folder
> - Upload a file inside a folder
> - Delete a folder or a file
> - Move a folder or a file
> - Copy a folder or a file
> - Get shares of user/Get shares of a file or folder/Get 
> info/Create/Update/Delete a share (already exists: 
> http://doc.owncloud.org/server/5.0/deve ... e-api.html 
> <http://doc.owncloud.org/server/5.0/developer_manual/core/ocs-share-api.html> 
> - I believe "get all shares" method should change to get user login 
> credentials as input)
> - Get version information of a file
> - Restore an older version of a file[/list][/list][/list]
>
> These are some calls I can think of off the top of my head. Is anyone working 
> on this functionality? Are there any pitfalls/problems that wouldn't allow 
> someone to create those methods?
> If anyone has more ideas please contribute them here.
>
> Thanx!
>
>
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