I am trying to research error handling paradigms in web service client apps. I haven't found any good results on Google - perhaps I'm not searching using the right terminology. I will describe my imagined approach to error handling below. Can you name it? Lets say our application is like iTunes but online. The user runs a JavaScript bas...
Does any one know of a music API other the yahoo's (http://developer.yahoo.com/music/) Thanks, Eden I should have clarified a bit. I know of other APIs but I would really like to know how was your experience with your API of choice. Especially with the ability of recognizing Artists' names and Tracks' name. I work a lot with Yahoo's...
Hey there, i am trying to publish a new post to a wordpress blog over the XMLRPC API. This works out fine so far, but now i want to add tags to the post. Either at creation time or afterwards. But i can't find any solutions in the supported APIs. Any clue on how i can tag new posts via XMLRPC requests? ...
Mediawiki is the only wiki software I've found that has an API for creating/editing posts (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API). Are there any others? ...
Hi Folks, I've just finished an online service for shortening URLs (in php5 with Zend Framework); you can enter an URL and you get an short URL (like tinyurl and such sites). I'm thinking about the API for developers - at the moment you can send URLs with SOAP to the service, but I am not sure if this is a good solution. What is the be...
I'm fairly new to ASP.NET. And I was wondering how I could go about getting xml from a site (Kuler's API in this case), and then post the result using AJAX? So what I want here, is to be able to do a query to Kuler's API. The URL would be something like "http://kuler-api.adobe.com/rss/search.cfm?query="+queryVariable Then send the resul...
This is continuation of my question on how to design a REST API for a media analysis server. As per Derrel's answer, in my current design I start the analysis of a media file using a POST /facerecognition/analysisrequests?profileId=33 which specifies that profile ID 33 (previously created on the server by another POST) should be used. I...
Hello all, I realize that this question is slightly server related and could be posted on ServerFault, but I'm more asking about a programming-related way to handle this situation, so please forgive me if it seems a bit server-specific. We currently have a web-based app that is running on Apache/PHP on a Linux server. We use PostgreSQL...
Hi, I have a rails-based restful server-side api. I want to know what services are called the most, their response time, etc. So this is sort of web analytics, but it's for server-side operation. Is there any free service out there that can help out( google analytics is a good analogy)? ...
Hello, Lately I've been looking for a good networking API i could possibly use and/or reference some of the code within, but i have mere luck searching for some on Google/Bing. Hopefully somebody here has seen and/or used a helpful networking API for C#. Thanks in advanced. ...
I am running a curl operation on the command line and am having trouble forcing the header to set as XML. I use the -H option to force the Content-Type to be xml, however, once I run the command I can see that the header is sent as urlencoded which is tainting one of the data values that I'm sending. Can someone explain to me why the Con...
I am developing a windows app that performs some common TFS tasks using the 2010 Beta 2 API (like creating new team projects, new work items, selective build, etc. ). In the process of editing existing work items, I should be able to automatically set the 'Reason' field's values according to state change of the WI (mimic-ing Visual Stud...
I'm building a map using the google v3 api because it is way faster. Essentially, it's a map of an area with about 30 cities with polygons over the regions. When a user hovers over a city, I want the fillColor to get lighter, and then return to it's normal state on mouseout. when a user click, it redirects them to another page. The clic...
Hello, I'm wondering if anyone can help me on getting my visual studio c++ project setup correctly to work with MySql? I downloaded and installed MySql Server, and installed the developer content with the include files, but beyond that I'm a bit lost. I tried adding the 'include' directory in my MySql install path to my additional incl...
I'm trying to create a simple application that is only supposed to be called by other applications. I've taken the concept from linux where you often have a application that depends on another, and then it does api-calls to that other application. The example I'm thinking about is libnotify which enables for notification of messages with...
I have a Rails application setup to receive file attachments using Paperclip. Now I need to allow a .net/C# cell phone application to post files along with the XML in the same way (or some other way if necessary: they could encode the image as base64 and send - they tried that initially - including the binary data in the tag that woul...
Hello Does the AlertListener interface works globally on all alerts on the blackberry device, or does it only work with alerts generated by your application? In other words, can I use this interface to listen when the phone generates any alert (ie. SMS, Email, Blackberry Messenger, third party app alerts, etc.)? Let me know, Regards ...
I'm trying to develop code to call the Google Search Appliance API. Because I don't have my own search appliance to test on right now, is there one on the internet that I can send a request to and get XML back from, as documented here? ...
I'm playing now with the Youtube API and I began a small project (for fun). The problem Is that I cant find the way to get Title of a video from the Id. (example: ylLzyHk54Z0) I have looked in the DATA and PLAYER api documentation and I cannot find it. If someone knows how to do this or if someone could help me find the way to do this...
Hai I want to parse text file using java. please prefer me an appropriate api Thanks in Advance ...