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There are limited v2 endpoints really. Its painful to switch gears when working with 2 versions of your API at the same time especially because each version returns different output formats. Imagine writing code when one api you call returns xml and another api you call returns json :)
Can you support json output for your original api which will make life little easier and I do not have to remember which ones send xml versus json?
Also, when are new endpoints planned to be released for sharing features?
The v2 API is in beta and thus is going to be in flux for a little while. We're working through the initial release based on developer feedback and usage. We're going to release a /collaborations endpoint in addition to other sharing capabilities eventually, but we're going to optimize the current available endpoints first.
Per the documentation, you can append '.xml' to API requests to have XML returned, which will let you work with v1 easier if you choose to develop against both simultaneously.
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We have a new extension that we built for many months and is live on the webstore.
Our extension communicates with our API and we get many fake installs daily - installs that we see in our API and not in the web store.
After many sleepless nights - We suspect that a robot with chrome runs our extension and deletes the local storage every time - this is only our best guess, although we are not sure if it's likely because the IP of each installation is different.
There are many more details - so If you would like to help and need further info let me know what and I can elaborate.
I'm not familiar with this Chrome extension API, BUT, if someone earns money by letting people install your extension then I'd check that lead.
Eventually, the clients (many IPs you say) that apparently "install" your extension report this event by making an HTTP request - again I only presume!
Saying that, it might be that someone controls many computers which simply initiate these HTTP requests to "report" a (fake) installation, thus making money.
If that is the case, and someone does make money out of your extension (could be also INDIRECTLY) then check the affiliate code or whatever, this is even an issue to report to Google itself, they can certainly investigate that.
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I keep hearing the term "service" a lot, but I have a vague understanding of it. Could someone explain what a service is citing some practical examples?
It depends on the context. Very abstractly speaking, a service is some sort of program that offers some function, but the internals of which are completely opaque. I.e., a web service is something running somewhere on the web, having some sort of API which you can contact to get or submit some data. What exactly it does is none of your business, it just offers its service to you. On a system, for example a Windows Service may be a program running persistently in the background, doing something. Inside an application, you may have a service layer, which offers some functionality which you can use in the rest of the application through an API, but how exactly it works is irrelevant.
That's in contrast to, e.g., a function or library or class, which you usually import, manipulate, use more directly. A service is more self-contained, offering only its functionality with nothing much in the way of introspecting it.
macdonald's is a service. you hand over some money, they give you a bigmac.
politicians are a service. you hand them your vote, they hand back lies and steal your lunch money, then charge you for doing so.
in computing terms, you hand over some data (a number, a string of text, etc..), the service takes that data, does something with it, and returns a result.
e.g. google translate is a service. google search is a service. godaddy's DNS registrar is a service. a computing service is no different than a real-world service.
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I want to develop a web app designed for mobile devices to just show some regions. These regions' boundaries consist of routes and rivers. I have no data of routes and rivers at hand, and I want to use ones provided by Google Maps.
If Google maps are not viable, please give me some tips or other ways to realize that.
It's forbidden to extract data from googlemap. Read the terms and agreements. Most data doesn't even belongs to Google, it is owned by GIS companies that rent it to Google.
It's not even possible to get this data using Google API. Google just provide tiles as bitmap.
This said, it's not that hard to do, just query custom tiles where everything is white but the roads and rivers. Then parse them. http://gmaps-samples-v3.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/styledmaps/wizard/index.html
There is another solution, the open source map database : http://www.openstreetmap.org/
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What's the difference between a bot on MediaWiki vs using the Rest Based api to do the operations?
If by "bot" you mean screen-scraping, such "bots" are severely discouraged and we developers don't make any guarantee that screen-scraping will work reliably, i.e. HTML output can drastically change at any moment without any prior notice. On the other hand, MediaWiki's web API is designed with stability in mind - in addition to other benefits such as machine-readable output (ol' good JSON is much easier to parse than tag soup) and better performance (we don't spend server resources on sking rendering, you don't spend bandwidth on receiving it).
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Why we need RIA ? I didn't see any benefits from RIA？ it need a plugin to run it, this will bring headache to its user, compared to the regular html page.
Thanks.
RIA, or Rich Internet Applications, came as a ready solution to the problem of slackened Web browsing and low customer conversion rate.
RIA offers richer functionality by making use of HTML widgets available on standard browser-based Web applications.
Rich Internet Applications are providing users a multi-dimensional experience.
With the use of RIA, a part of the application runs directly within the users’ Web browser, allowing automatic navigation. It is a major improvement on traditional HTML and has transformed the static database of a website to a multi-functional online experience. Now, shoppers can see, “feel” and even try products online. RIA ensures large scale business returns and repeat visits, giving a boost to online business.