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[Scott Lawrence <bytbox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Plugins and scripting are definitely surl's job. Do you have any idea
how annoying it is to implement that stuff in C? :-)

libsurl is lacking the ability to handle titles and keywords and
stuff.  By which I mean, the template API can handle them, but none of
the templates I've written actually do.  That's a big thing I need to
work on for 0.6. The other big thing is documentation (ick).

At one point I thought I saw the beginnings of a debian package for
surl, but as nearly as I can tell, nothing is happening with that.
What's going on?


On 12/25/09, Ahmed Elmahdawy <aa_mahdawy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> No, these functions are great and should make CDLL happy.
> CDLL doesn't understand C types. For example, a function that returns
> SURL will just return an integer in Python. When you pass that to other
> functions, it throws an exception because "it expected SURL but got int."
>
> By the way, I think libsurl have almost reached surl apart from several
> other services. Plugins (and maybe scripting?) are surl's job, not
> libsurl's.
>
> On 12/25/2009 09:29 PM, Scott Lawrence wrote:
>> I don't know how python's C-interface works yet, but: for version 0.6,
>> the libsurl API is going to include functions along the lines of
>> (details to be worked out later)
>>
>> char *surl_qshort(char *url) // picks a few services, and picks the
>> shortest resulting URL
>> char *surl_easy_shorten(char *service, char *url); // for normal people
>> char *surl_do_shorten(char *service,char *url,char *key,char
>> *whatever_else) // as specified above.
>>
>> Any other suggestions?
>>
>> I plan to have surl using the libsurl API around version 0.8 (of both
>> - version numbers roughly correspond as of libsurl-0.5).
>>
>>
>> On 12/25/09, Ahmed Elmahdawy<aa_mahdawy@xxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>>> Looking at libsurl's source code, I've found that it seems almost
>>> impossible for Python's -- or in this case, surl -- CDLL to call it.
>>> What can be done in the future is to implement a simple function that
>>> takes all arguments (url, api key, etc and null for none) and returns
>>> the shortened API.
>>> Here's an example:
>>>
>>> char *surl_pyget(char *url, char *service, char *key, /more args/)
>>> {
>>> /// do surl_getopt()'s, null or empty string=ignore/
>>>       char *shortUrl = /shortened url/;
>>>       // /cleanup/
>>>       return shortUrl;
>>> }
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Ahmed Elmahdawy
>>>
>>
>>
>
>


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