Talk:Web services

general remarks about OUTPUT of operations:

Is true of false informative enough ? Should the API have some sort of "last_error" function giving back more details such as "non existing course, non existing user, duplicate entry ...) Shall we consider that affecting a role that already exist or removing role that do not exist as an error (output=false) or not (output=true)

yep, agree, I'd result always one well defined $result object, with his status, error code and error msg (and perhaps, the whole original WS request encapsulated for easier debugging).

Eloy Lafuente (stronk7) 19:55, 21 December 2007 (CST)

I agree but throught the WS we need to be be carefull with the feedback we give to errors, due to security issues. --Ludo (Marc Alier) 14:14, 22 December 2007 (CST)

some WS to be able to... build courses ?

Perhpas it would be a great idea to start thinking about some WS functionalities like this:

• add_course, delete_course, reset_course
• add_section, delete_section, show_section, hide_section
• add_activity, delete_activity, show_activity, hide_activity

Apart from the WS utility itself: automated creation of courses... it would help (or force, as we prefer), to better encapsulate course/section/modules internals, 100% isolating the creation and configuration from the frontend (forms, WS...). It implies some decisions, like upwards compatibility of old modules (although I think it can be maintained)... and so on, you know.

Just one idea to analyse. But with benefits in the end, IMO. Eloy Lafuente (stronk7) 20:02, 21 December 2007 (CST)