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Google APIs Discovery Service: one API to find them all (googlecode.blogspot.com)
40 points by yanw on May 9, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 11 comments



Three APIs for the Lisp-kings under the sky, Seven for the C-lords in their halls of stone, Nine for Java Men doomed to die, One for the Search Lord on his data throne, In the Land of Google where the PageRanks lie. One API to rule them all, One API to find them, One API to bring them all and in the filesystem bind them In the Land of Google where the PageRanks lie.


Interesting to see json schema used. I was just using it for something similar in my own api framework (although mostly for validation and serialization, not just discovery) and the public interest in the spec seemed mild at best. Good to see the idea catch on a little, though it would have been even better if they released a full python implementation of it instead of just hard coding around the few pieces they actually use. There actually aren't any full implementations at all right now.

http://json-schema.org/


I used json-schema like crazy in my last pet project. used it to validate javascript I would proxy for well known interface endpoints. pretty damn nice.


I am waiting for the Google Search API... (not the deprecated ones)

Also waiting for the Google Reader API... and many other Google NoAPIs.


This would be much more interesting if they were opening up the API infrastructure component.


looks like a yahoo yql (developer.yahoo.com/yql/console)


It's APIs all the way down.


so they basically re-invented UDDI ??


How do you discover the discovery service?


The same way you discover google: Go to a well-known uri.


That was a joke.




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