ThinkFree API

[SteveB]

The viewer is intentionally limited not to provide write capabilities. I do have their API docs and they provide information how to create a custom Java class to read and write to any data store. However, it requires a commercial license of ThinkFree as you need to run their server edition.

[jwoodford]

The viewer is intentionally limited not to provide write capabilities. I do have their API docs and they provide information how to create a custom Java class to read and write to any data store. However, it requires a commercial license of ThinkFree as you need to run their server edition.

Right, we are working with them demoing their editors on one of our servers that we are trying to integrate with deki wiki, and I have it all working except for giving deki wiki the address of where the document is located. Again I know thats a think free thing, cause as far as I know from whats public info in their api, there isn't any real return as to where that file was saved. I was wondering if they dropped any hints to you guys as of some string you can pull that has that path in it?

[SteveB]

Ah, thanks for clarifying.

I never dover too deep into it since it was Java (which I'm rather rusty in).

The docs that I got were for creating a custom protocol handler and the admin user guide.

Let me know if you need any help on the Deki Wiki API side. I'd love to see ThinkFree and Deki Wiki workig in harmony.

[jwoodford]

Is the api documentation the same that they have available on their site?

[jwoodford]

So I got an interesting responce back from Thinkfree, They gave me some uncompiled java files for their ftp extension. I can probably use that to ftp into my deki server, drop the files on our share there, format and feed a put string back through the deki api to update the file revision in the wiki and all should be good. Only question is I've been having a little trouble with your guy's api. Is the string needed for changing an attachment only :

http://<server>/@api/deki/files/109/=linkwindow.jpg

[royk]

You would need to take the file, and PUT it against a known pageid:

PUT: http://server/@api/deki/pages/{pageid}/files/={filename}

I would avoid the FTP method, as when you try to hit the file against the API, it will try to store it again. You can store it locally, then send that over the "wire" with your PUT request...

[jwoodford]

Problem is pulling that address from thinkfree, thats why I was going to ftp it to a common location.

[royk]

I understand that you're using code from ThinkFree, but just FTPing it into Deki Wiki won't trigger the revisions or indexing of the file, which is why I'm suggesting using the the API. You can manually trigger the reindexing, but you cannot force it to re-revision; revisioning only triggers when it goes through the PUT file codepath.

It's a little more pain now for much more payoff.

[jwoodford]

I absolutely agree. We want to see the revisions go through the wiki api so that we can keep a log of what goes on. Now....how to connect to the api to input that Put command... I notice that the examples in the api documentation are all in csharp, is there a way to make calls in php?


N/m I just found dream.php.

[royk]

I notice that the examples in the api documentation are all in csharp, is there a way to make calls in php?

You can also search for the upload function in includes/Attach.php to see how the PHP uses curl to PUT the file.