[TYPO3-caretaker] RPC for caretaker

[Martin Ficzel]

Am 19.04.10 13:00, schrieb Pascal Jungblut:
> Hey Martin,
>
> what I want to implement is basically an overview as the caretaker provides it in the backend module. First it should be possible to view the testresults, charts, information and maybe to trigger the tests manually. I don't know if it would make sense to edit and add tests via the iPhone.
>
>> The caretaker_instance extension already has some sort of encrypted
>> method calling implemented. For security reasons it only executes
>> previously registered methods (we call this remote operations). The list
>> of remote operations can be extended by extensions so you can add all
>> the operations you need in an extension which afterwards would be
>> installed on the caretaker-server. The request-building / -decryption
>> etc. happens in the caretaker_instance extension so you will find
>> examples there.
>
> Thanks a lot, I will take a look at that! Do you know if there is any definition of the API out in the wild?

Hi Pascal,

no there is none. We planned to use the encrypted communication only between 
caretaker_instance(server) and caretaker_instance(client). The implementation is focused 
on security. So if you only want to display informations you could also get from the 
caretaker frontend adding a json webservice is ok for me. If you want to manipulate 
settings or  trigger testruns i strongly recommend to use the encrypted api instead. It's 
no rocket science just an ssl encrypted xml which contains operation-id and params.

On the other hand an optimized mobile web-frontend would do the job too. If you create 
such a css and template we could add this to the caretaker extension.

Regards, Martin