Re: [9fans] Fedex command

[steve <steve@quintile.net>]

I did investigate writing a plan9client for Jira
earlier this year. it exposes its apis as soap, xmlrpc and rest
so i could use any. from the little i have read rest looks
preferable though i speak from a position of little knowledge here.

i hoped to write a genetic REST 9p file server that would allow
you to send and receive simple requests via a virtual file, in the
style of webfs.

i have a DOM model xml parser that i used in wdfs (webdav fs) in my
contrib that i planned to reuse.

the advantage, of course, is the restfs could be reused for ups, fedex, jira, etc.

sadly this got no further than a thought experiment due to work pessures,
and recent family pressures (twins born last week) could also slow progress...

-Steve

On 31 May 2012, at 07:23 PM, Anthony Sorace <a@9srv.net> wrote:

>> The published APIs didn't seem to lend themselves to a
>> simple screen-scrape.
> 
> Well, they're mostly XML/SOAP, which is a pain, but they're not too rough as
> such things go. Certainly they change a lot less than the web pages do, so
> even if you're just using exactly the same techniques on what's returned it
> should be an improvement from a reliability perspective. UPS's seem a bit
> better than FedEx's (I don't recall looking at USPSs). FedEx has a "web
> integration" thing which might be easier to use here, but I don't know details.
> 
> If you don't want to do that, I think the only other option is another round of
> updating the HTML scraping that's there now.
> 
> Anthony
>