[racktables-users] Re: RESTful API for RackTables

  • From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Alexey Andriyanov <alan@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 11:08:40 -0500

On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Alexey Andriyanov <alan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> RackTables makes it very easy to extend it, but the price you pay is that
> you must use PHP.
>
> It gets me crazy when people try to fetch data directly from the DB over and
> over again.
>
> They suffer from undocumented and changing DB schema. The right solution for
> this kind of problems is to write data exporters in PHP, using all the
> functions RackTables already has to work with its DB.
>

I'm confused.  How is the right solution to being language-agnostic to
use PHP?  And I need an importer as much as an exporter.

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   Les Mikesell
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