Foodsoft API discussion

[wvengen]

Hi everyone,

It looks like Foodsoft will (finally) get an API. There is some
discussion on how it would look like.
Please feel free to join in, and share your perspectives.

    https://github.com/foodcoops/foodsoft/issues/582

And in case you may have any plans using the API, I'm curious to hear
what your ideas would be (by replying on the list).

Kind regards,
- Willem

[MichaelP]

Hi Willem,

not too much going on here ;-)

I would really like to have an API to easily access Foodsoft. We need to sync hundreds of users between our Foodcoop DB and the Foodsoft DB. Currently I use a Perl Mechanize script I have created some time ago (with quite some time spent on it to get it running ... ) to do the sync by calling the appropriate web pages and filling the forms. Additionally a sync option for other data like articles and finances would be helpful, too. An API would be perfect for that!

Thanks a lot for working on that!

Michael

[wvengen]

Hi Michael,

Thanks for responding. While I've mostly worked on the member-facing part of the API (ordering), it's good to know you and others are interested in things like updating articles as well. I'll keep that in mind.

Regards,
- Willem

On 22-11-18 12:05, MichaelP [via foodsoft] wrote:

Hi Willem,

not too much going on here ;-)

I would really like to have an API to easily access Foodsoft. We need to sync hundreds of users between our Foodcoop DB and the Foodsoft DB. Currently I use a Perl Mechanize script I have created some time ago (with quite some time spent on it to get it running ... ) to do the sync by calling the appropriate web pages and filling the forms. Additionally a sync option for other data like articles and finances would be helpful, too. An API would be perfect for that!

Thanks a lot for working on that!

Michael

[MichaelP]

wvengen wrote

I'll keep that in mind.

Thanks!!!