On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com wrote:
So the obvious followup question is: is there a plan to migrate the front end to *use the API* to talk to the backend (which is the preferred approach to such things anyway)?
One practical issue with this at present is that nobody who does much of anything with core does much of anything with the API. I've barely looked at it at all.
As a more philosophical thing, there's no reason for the human UI to call the API. We should have a back-end, and then two interfaces to that: one designed for external robots, and one designed for HTML-viewing humans. Both of the interfaces should use the internal PHP interface to speak to the back-end. The API operates in a format that's suitable for robots to use, not suitable for internal code to use.