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Atom ressources format description
This document describes XML syntax for Blogmarks.net Atom ressources.
The blogmarks.net Atom API may change until version 1.0
Version
This is version 0.1 of this document.
Introduction
The Blogmarks.net Atom API specification explains how to communicate with server. This document is about the various XML syntaxes used to describe blogmarks.net ressources.
Most of the elements described below are defined by the latest Atom Format specification. In some cases, this format has been extended using XML namespaces to provide a better description of blogmarks.net ressources : blogmarks & tags.
Blogmarks syntax
The blogmarks is our projects base ressource. Think of it as a bookmark with added metadata. Users can add blogmarks to the server. They can be public or private. One can add tags to blogmarks in order to sort them and therefore enable easier access.
Id
This mark's Atom identifier. It is unique and autogenerated by server at mark's creation time. It will look like tag:blogmarks.net,2005:marks,432. Nothing should be guessed from it and it must be kept entirely.
| PostURI | FeedURI | EditURI |
| Forbidden | Available | GET : Available, PUT : Optional |
link[@rel=related]
Points to blogmarked URI.
| PostURI | FeedURI | EditURI |
| Mandatory | Available | GET : Available, PUT : Mandatory |
link[@rel=alternate]
Points to blogmark's HTML representation
| PostURI | FeedURI | EditURI |
| Forbidden | Available | GET : Available, PUT : Forbidden |
link[@rel=image]
Point's to blogmarked site's screenshot.
| PostURI | FeedURI | EditURI |
| Forbidden | Available | GET : Available, PUT : Forbidden |
edit
Points to blogmark's EditURI.
| PostURI | FeedURI | EditURI |
| Forbidden | Available | GET : Available, PUT : Forbidden |
title
Blogmark's title.
| PostURI | FeedURI | EditURI |
| Mandatory | Available | GET : Available, PUT : Mandatory |
summary
Blogmark's summary.
| PostURI | FeedURI | EditURI |
| Optional | Optional | GET : Optional, PUT : Optional |
published
Blogmarks publication date.
| PostURI | FeedURI | EditURI |
Can be set if client wants publication date to be different from creation date (bm:created). It can be set to a future date.
bm:created
Blogmark's creation date.
| PostURI | FeedURI | EditURI |
| Forbidden | Available | GET : Available, PUT : Forbidden |
updated
Blogmark's last modification date.
| PostURI | FeedURI | EditURI |
| Forbidden | Available | GET : Available, PUT : Forbidden |
author
Blogmark's author.
| PostURI | FeedURI | EditURI |
| Can be set, but won't be used by server. Blogmark's owner will be logged in user. | Available | GET : Available, PUT : Optional |
category
Tag associated to blogmark.
<category term="http://api.blogmarks.net/tags" sheme="/atom" label="atom"/> <category term="http://api.blogmarks.net/user/benoit/tags" sheme="/MesProjets" label="MesProjets"/>
| PostURI | FeedURI | EditURI |
| Optional | Optional | GET : Optional, PUT : Optional |
Syntaxe d'un tag
Id
C'est l'identifiant "atom" du tag. Il est unique et auto généré par le serveur lorsque le mark est créé. Il sera de la forme : 'tag:blogmarks.net,2005:tags,145'. Aucune information ne doit être déduite de ce tag et il doit être conservé dans sa totalité.
| PostURI | FeedURI | EditURI |
| Forbidden | Available | GET : Available, PUT : Mandatory |
link[@rel=alternate]
Pointe sur la reAvailableation html du tag.
| PostURI | FeedURI | EditURI |
| Forbidden | Available | GET : Available, PUT : Forbidden |
link[@rel=image]
Pointe sur une image associé au tag.
| PostURI | FeedURI | EditURI |
| Optional | Optional | GET : Optional, PUT : Optional |
edit
Pointe sur l'EditURI du blogmark.
| PostURI | FeedURI | EditURI |
| Forbidden | Available | GET : Available, PUT : Forbidden |
title
Titre du tag.
| PostURI | FeedURI | EditURI |
| Mandatory | Available | GET : Available, PUT : Mandatory |
summary
Description du tag.
| PostURI | FeedURI | EditURI |
| Optional | Optional | GET : Optional, PUT : Optional |
published
Date de publication du tag.
| PostURI | FeedURI | EditURI |
| L'utilisateur ne pouvant créer que des tags privés, la date de publication n'a pas de sens içi | ||
Optional (Toujours Available pour les tags publics)
bm:created
Date de création du tag.
| PostURI | FeedURI | EditURI |
| Forbidden | Available | GET : Available, PUT : Forbidden |
updated
Date de dernière modification du tag.
| PostURI | FeedURI | EditURI |
| Forbidden | Available | GET : Available, PUT : Forbidden |
Syntaxe d'un feed
Un feed contient un en-tête (head) et une liste d'entrées. L'en-tête peut contenir les éléments suivants.
title
Titre du feed généré par le serveur en fonction de la requête.
alternate
Lien vers le feed correspondant de l'interface blogmarks.net.
link[@rel=prev]
Lien vers le feed précédent s'il existe. Permet de naviguer entre les réponses d'une requête.
link[@rel=next]
Lien vers le feed suivant s'il existe.
updated
La plus grande date de dernière modification des entrées du feed résultat.
Syntaxe des messages d'erreur
Lorsque le serveur rencontre une erreur, il renvoit dans le corps de la réponse un message précisant cette erreur, du type :
<?xml version="1.0"?> <message xmlns="http://api.blogmarks.net/ns#">No user connected</message>
See also : DeveloperDocs, AtomApiSpec
