<div dir="ltr">Forgive me if I'm not understanding this correctly, but wouldn't it be best to simply expose the API as an OpenAPI, then all the clients can literally write themselves using generators:<div><a href="https://github.com/OpenAPITools/openapi-generator">https://github.com/OpenAPITools/openapi-generator</a> </div><div> <br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 4 Jul 2019 at 12:49, Hardie, Andrew <<a href="mailto:a.hardie@lancaster.ac.uk">a.hardie@lancaster.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Hi all,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">If you happen to be subscribed to the checkin feed for the SVN repo on sourceforge you may have noticed that I have created a number of “CQPwebClient” class definitions for
different programming languages.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">The idea of these is to ease use of the client API – raw API involves a lot of juggling about with GET and POST parameters. The only serious API function that is “working”
theoretically at the moment is access to frequency lists. (“theoretically” because I am sure there are bugs.)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">I am trying to make each client follow the same object model within the constraints of each language’s structure. The “odd one out” is the JavaScript, which is designed for
asynchronous programming (As in a browser), unlike the others. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">The two most complete are the JavaScript and PHP, followed by the C, the Python and the Perl. The idea is that, as far as possible, the same properties and methods should be
exposed by each object model – so the sequence of calls to the client (and the parameters which need to be specified) to accomplish some task X will be the same regardless of the language.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">I intend to continue to work on the JS and PHP clients myself as they are my languages of choice. (Well, actually, C is my language of choice, thus why there is a client object
for C, but really it is a proof of concept rather than something I have a strong expectation of people wanting to make use of). Plus they exemplify the asynchronous/synchronous usage generally. However, for the others, having put down the rough outlines I
would very much like to hand off maintenance to people who actually know what they are doing in the respective languages.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">TLDR</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">:
<b><span style="color:red">I would be most grateful to anyone willing to volunteer to take on primary responsibility for one of the clients
</span></b>other than the JS and PHP versions – especially the Python, R or Perl. (BTW – the R client is just an empty file; I have no intention of actually writing it because R’s object system gives me the heebie-jeebies.)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Or if anyone would like to contribute a client object in one of the (many) languages that I’m too scared even to touch (e.g. Java, C#, Ruby, Go, Lisp, shell, Groovy, Lua, MATLAB,
BASIC, INTERCAL…) then that would also be fabulous.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Anyone who is interested – just drop a note to the list. The only requirement is that you must be happy for your contributions to be released open source (with an MIT style
licence). <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Thanks in advance!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">best<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Andrew.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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