Re: [Gnumed-devel] Drug Progress

[Horst Herb]

Ian Haywood wrote:

> What we need is a common API, see attached an inital draft.

Good draft, good start.
I would like to raise attention towards parameters / datatypes: as 
elegant as "pythonic" solutions are, the API should be equally suitable 
for "service" implementation: that is, we should not use parameters that 
cannot be used via XML-RPC as least common denominator.

This is valid for any future API for whatever purpose.

A summary of "allowed" datatypes can be found at 
http://xmlrpc-c.sourceforge.net/xmlrpc-howto/xmlrpc-howto-types.html
I would encourage the use of "dictionary" type parameters, explicitly 
the use of one single dictionary style parameter for that matter: simple 
and straightforward and yet very flexible.

Horst