[TYPO3-dev] typo3-rpc proposal

[Martin Ficzel]

im thinking about creating an external interface for the typo3 backend
to enable the creating of external (maybe flash) management modules.

the current situation is this:

- tce functions for manipulating and creating of records are available
- no tce functions for recding of records are available in the core
- no external interface (xmlrpc, soap, webdav ... ) is available wich
could be used from external tools
- the tce methods are quite crude (a lot of parameter arrays)

im planning something like this:

- create an abstraction class for creating, reading, manipulating and
deleting of records wich uses the tce functions and adds some reading
methods (a be login is still necessary so the security should be the
same like in the normal be)

- create other classes wich expose this interface via xmlrpc or any
other interface method to the external world (others might be soap, json)


my questions at this moment are:
- is this a good or bad idea
- does something like this already exist or is planned
- shall i start a wiki-page to define the rpc interface

regrads, Martin

PS: additionally it should be easy to add an external login method to
the RPC-class to allow a complete login from standalone tools (maybe
ts-editors).