REST API

[Marenz]

Hello,

I just found your project while I was looking for things similar to PiggyDB but more actively maintained (and less Java, but no luck here).

I didn't try installing it yet but I'll probably try it tomorrow.

One thing that I feel is missing in both PiggyDB and this one (at least I couldn't find any mentioning of it) is some kind of API to read or write information to the system.

My personal motivation for that is that I'd like for example synchronize my contacts from my phone and my calendar to the system to have them all part in one information-base. The first step in a generic way to support that would be an API.

Other uses could be that you can synchronize your browser bookmarks to it. Basically it would be a HUB for all kind of information and various apps could get plugins to read and write from/to it.

Someone (me?) could then write another service to sync to/from the phone and forward it to civilizer.

Of course direct support would also be nice, but that might be too much to ask ;)

You seem to have invested quite some work in this, I am quite impressed from the commit history. Looking forward to actually try this.

[suewonjp]

Thank you for the comment.

Basically it would be a HUB for all kind of information and various apps could get plugins to read and write from/to it.

Nice idea. Actually I've been thinking that since I started Civilizer.

For now, I don't know how many people are using my tool. (almost no feedback so far)
So the current focus is just increasing usability solely based on my needs.

I have a desktop and a few laptops, and all of them run civilizer. I am synching data between them via Google Drive and no problem with that..... so far.

Synching with mobile devices and providing APIs like you suggested are actually another goals for the tool.
But not so much of motivation yet. As I stated, I'm just happy with synching my data from civilizer on PCs. If lots of other users request mobile synch feature, It will give me some motivation to do that, though.

My current focus is more convenient UI, good collaborations with SNS such as twitter, leveraging Google APIs for maps / Google Drive, ...

But I'm quite positive about your idea. We can discuss more to find out how much viable and doable the idea is and also I'll welcome more detailed discussions.

BTW, If you have any problem in installing the tool, feel free to ask.

[quickerlab]

API will be great

[rstp]

I am using Civilizer 0-9-0 RC8 and am quite satisfied with it. I installed the WAR file under my already running jetty 9 engine and it works very well.
Thanks for the good work.
Robert