[Social-Desktop] Extending OCS API - Content service

[Ben Cooksley]

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 12:36 AM, Frank Karlitschek <karlitschek at kde.org> wrote:
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> On 23.04.2010, at 23:14, Ben Cooksley wrote:
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>> On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 6:05 AM, Frank Karlitschek <karlitschek at kde.org> wrote:
>>> Hi Ben,
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>> Hi Frank,
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>>> thanks for your mail. I´m looking forward to integrate the KDE forum.
>>> :-)
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>>> The API can be improved of course as long as it stays compatible with existing clients and servers.
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>>> The knowledge base calls can be used to publish questions and answers. This information will be used by the knowledge base plasmoid and hopefully the khelpcenter in the future.
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>> I didn't see a way to add items using the knowledge base calls...
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> Good point. We should add this call. I will make a proposal for a call and send it to the list.
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>> it only offers the ability to list items for a specific content entry
>> or to list all content items ( which means it isn't too suitable as we
>> have no way of exposing the actual forums itself, other than a flat
>> tree of latest topics, which wouldn't work for a desktop client,
>> brainstorm client, etc )
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>> Perhaps the knowledge base module could have optional "categories" or
>> something similar? They would probably need the ability to have parent
>> categories also, to best reflect the forum structure...
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> You are right. We should add better categories.
> Could you make a proposal for such an enhancement?

Certainly. Where should I send it as part of this thread, or as a new one?

At one point the OCS API had a "forum" module ( I think ), what happened to it?

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>>> I also released a comments module of the api last week which can be used to publish comments threads. It is also possible to post comments with this api.
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>> The comments API looks perfect for exposing the forum topics
>> themselves. ( v1/comments/data/7/forumid/topicid )
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>> A good idea to extend it would be to add the ability to tell if an
>> item has been read before or not ( this would really be for extra
>> functionality though )
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> Yes. Good idea.
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>>> A stand alone KDE forum app would be great. But someone has to write it of course.
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>>> The api is in an early stage and I would love to get feedback from you about it.
>>> There is no support in KDE yet for this comments api. But libattica could easily be extended.
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>>> I suggest that you use this two modules for the forum integration. The content module is used for publish files via GHNS and is not suitable for a forum IMHO.
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>> Ah, ok that makes sense ( especially given that many of the calls we
>> would just return nothing for )
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>>> What do you think?
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>>> Cheers
>>> Frank
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>> Regards,
>> Ben
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> It´s great that you plan to integrate with the Social Desktop ideas. :-)
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> Cheers
> Frank
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>>> On 23.04.2010, at 12:52, Ben Cooksley wrote:
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>>>> Hi all,
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>>>> Just wondering if it would be possible to add a parent category
>>>> property to the results returned by the categories part of the content
>>>> service? ( ie. v1/content/categories )
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>>>> Currently we ( forum.kde.org staff ) intend to support browsing our
>>>> content using a combination of the content service ( for retrieving
>>>> the forum and topic listings ) and the knowledge base service ( for
>>>> retrieving the posts in a topic ) although this is still under
>>>> development at time... Is this spec compliant as such, or would
>>>> further alterations ( such as a method to retrieve comments on content
>>>> items ) be needed?
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>>>> Regards,
>>>> Ben Cooksley
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>>> --
>>> Frank Karlitschek
>>> karlitschek at kde.org
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> --
> Frank Karlitschek
> karlitschek at kde.org
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