[Anthill-pro] Remote scripting VS SOAP Api.

[Eric Minick]

I'd like to float a third option as well. This would be to use the API 
from within Anthill to generate a report that is made accessible to 
everyone. Any example of simple light dashboad is available out here: 
http://bugs.urbancode.com/browse/AHPSCRIPTS-13

In general, both the SOAP and java client libraries are going to filter 
projects for a particular user. Since you have to log in through the 
libraries, any "get all" type methods will automatically filter out any 
project/workflow that the user does not have permission to see - much of 
the security is implemented at the database and data access tiers.

The SOAP interface is designed to be a stable interface providing some 
tools supporting common access patterns. The java library is essentially 
the AnthillPro domain with the persistence system modified to go back to 
the central server instead of directly to the database. Since it is 
almost the entire domain, it is naturally going to be more complete and 
more powerful at the cost of ease of use. That said, we are definitely 
open to expanding the features exposed by the SOAP interface if there 
are some calls you think would be helpful for us to implement.

Warm Regards,

Eric

Frederic Jean wrote:
> I'm presently exploring the possibility to use the SOAP Api of anthill
> and create for the user a "light dashboard", where they can see results
> of projects/workflow.
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> As it seem the API is very limited to Projects/Workflow and latest
> activities and there is no way to dig in those workflows or project ,
> except for their properties..
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> Why the SOAP api isn't as complete as the remote scripting api ? 
> So what is the plan of Anthill with the SOAP api ? 
> Any development plan to enhance it in the future ?
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> Also , with the remote scripting could i fetch the same data (all
> available projects for a user, current workflow activities, ...  and I
> suppose i could dig in my workflow to see job iteration , and what
> actually failed ???)
>
> (I'm not a java guru) So I suppose I could work on a jsp web site ,
> displaying this data using the remote scripting api ? Problem is all
> technology used here is everything except java , is there a solution
> where my asp.net application could hook to anthill using the remote
> scripting Api instead of web services as the soap api doesn't contain
> all the information I would like to get ??
>
> Thank you
> Frederic Jean
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