[IPOL discuss] Access to stat on total number of demo archive

[Bertrand Kerautret]

Agree with you Miguel, a first service with a query string with an JSON 
response should be fine.

I will look at it in link to the web service if the idea is fine for all.
Thank for your reply,
Cheers,
Bertrand



Le 16/04/2014 16:42, Miguel Colom a écrit :
> Quoting Bertrand Kerautret <bertrand.kerautret at univ-lorraine.fr>:
>> Hi everybody,
>> Just to know if there is simple way to access to the total number of
>> archive associated to a demonstration (more simple than greping "X
>> public archive" from the html code) ?
>> My purpose is for instance to automatically check this number from
>> another server and alert authors by email when new test is applied.
>> Thank in advance.
>> Bertrand
>
> Hi Bertrand,
> there's an SQLite file at the directory "archive" of each demo: index.db
>
> Your question arises again the problem of the lack of a common API in IPOL.
> Then, how to retrieve the number of experiments of a given demo? In my
> opinion, this should be done via a webservice that isolates from the
> SQLite operations.
>
> For example, it could be obtained with an URL like, for example
> http://www.ipol.im/webservice/stat?demo=123 and receiving a JSON
> response with all the information about the demo.
>
> In fact, I think that everything should be done that way, splitting the
> demo system into several independent modules.
>
> Therefore, if we want to add this new feature, it's the good time to
> start with the webservices.
>
> Best,
> Miguel
>
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