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joomla / statistics-server

Server for collecting environment stats for Joomla Installations
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Proposal - Have the server act as a RESTful API #6

Closed mbabker closed 9 years ago

mbabker commented 9 years ago

Long and short, instead of having an HTML frontend, I think it'd be interesting to just have the server act as a RESTful API provider and kick back sanitized data from its various endpoints.

Why?

If we're going to collect the data, we should share it (within practical and legal reason). WordPress' stats are consumable via an HTML page and API and only kicks back summarized top level data (for example the percentage of installs on MySQL 5.1, not specific counts).

Also, in lieu of web services support in the CMS, this at least demonstrates some way to use Joomla code as an API provider, even in the most simplest of forms.

Raw Data Access

Arguably there will be folks with a valid reason to get the detailed raw data. This could be implemented through some sort of authorization token that when passed returns a more detailed dataset.

Rendering the Data

Since this would be an API, someone could code up a module to use on any Joomla web property to take the data and plug it into a chart.

mbabker commented 9 years ago

I'm going to take no response as a sign of no interest. Moving on then.

wilsonge commented 9 years ago

If someone wants to write the code sure go for it. But personally I don't see it as being hugely important - especially for a first step

mbabker commented 9 years ago

Actually it's a large architectural decision in how the server is deployed, how the plugin interfaces with it, and how Joomla shares the data.