[Sugar-devel] Collaboration API (was Re: HTML5 Activities page on the Wiki)

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 2013-04-30, at 12:54, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 30 April 2013 12:35, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>> Will that new Collaboration API be made available to non-HTML activities, too? And how will it be different from the deprecated Presence Service?
> 
> No, the idea is that the public API layer will be javascript,

Of course.

> the rest being internal implementation detail.

It is indeed the implementation details I'm talking about. The Javascript API could use an identical Python API. And that API could then be used both by Javascript activities and other activities, too. This would simplify the development process for all, because activity developers would not have to talk to Telepathy directly.

You have to implement the new API anyway. The question is simply, where to put that code. If you put it in the Sugar Shell and expose it via DBus, it will be available to all activity developers. The Javascript API would simply be a very thin layer that use it. OTOH, if you put that code only into the HTML activity support, you now have created two different ways to implement collaboration in Sugar. You will have to document separately, learn separately, maintain separately. 

- Bert -