[CWB] CQPweb: help wanted for client objects

[José Manuel Martínez Martínez]

Hi Andrew,

this sounds interesting. But I'm not sure if I understand it. Where can 
I find the Python client? Is the idea to have a client written in Python 
to interact with a REST API written in PHP?

Cheers,

José Manuel Martínez Martínez
https://chozelinek.github.io

On 04.07.19 05:49, Hardie, Andrew wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> If you happen to be subscribed to the checkin feed for the SVN repo on 
> sourceforge you may have noticed that I have created a number of 
> “CQPwebClient” class definitions for different programming languages.
>
> The idea of these is to ease use of the client API – raw API involves 
> a lot of juggling about with GET and POST parameters. The only serious 
> API function that is “working” theoretically at the moment is access 
> to frequency lists. (“theoretically” because I am sure there are bugs.)
>
> I am trying to make each client follow the same object model within 
> the constraints of each language’s structure. The “odd one out” is the 
> JavaScript, which is designed for asynchronous programming (As in a 
> browser), unlike the others.
>
> The two most complete are the JavaScript and PHP, followed by the C, 
> the Python and the Perl. The idea is that, as far as possible, the 
> same properties and methods should be exposed by each object model – 
> so the sequence of calls to the client (and the parameters which need 
> to be specified) to accomplish some task X will be the same regardless 
> of the language.
>
> I intend to continue to work on the JS and PHP clients myself as they 
> are my languages of choice. (Well, actually, C is my language of 
> choice, thus why there is a client object for C, but really it is a 
> proof of concept rather than something I have a strong expectation of 
> people wanting to make use of).  Plus they exemplify the 
> asynchronous/synchronous usage generally. However, for the others, 
> having put down the rough outlines I would very much like to hand off 
> maintenance to people who actually know what they are doing in the 
> respective languages.
>
> *TLDR*: *I would be most grateful to anyone willing to volunteer to 
> take on primary responsibility for one of the clients *other than the 
> JS and PHP versions – especially the Python, R or Perl. (BTW – the R 
> client is just an empty file; I have no intention of actually writing 
> it because R’s object system gives me the heebie-jeebies.)
>
> Or if anyone would like to contribute a client object in one of the 
> (many) languages that I’m too scared even to touch (e.g. Java, C#, 
> Ruby, Go, Lisp, shell, Groovy, Lua, MATLAB, BASIC, INTERCAL…) then 
> that would also be fabulous.
>
> Anyone who is interested – just drop a note to the list. The only 
> requirement is that you must be happy for your contributions to be 
> released open source (with an MIT style licence).
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> best
>
> Andrew.
>
>
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