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Flesh out Server model to enable distributed network and federated API #8

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westonruter opened this issue Jul 6, 2010 · 0 comments
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In order to be a distributed, interoperable network of servers using this (federated) API, the servers need to know about each other. Servers should maintain a manifest of the known servers and be able to propagate and synchronize the server manifest lists with each other. Such manifests need to inclide:

  • Base URL for the API on the server, e.g. http://example.com/foo/api/
  • The openscriptures_api apps installed, e.g. texts, morphs, notes, etc.
  • The version of the API that is being run.
  • The texts and other objects that it has available.
  • Any access restrictions, including rate-limiting, authentication, etc.

The federated nature of the API is critical as it allows copyright-protected works to become part of the network, and it provides redundancy and mirroring to make applications more scalable.

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