[Lazarus] Google APIs

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Some of you may have noticed that a package 'Google APis' has been added 
> to FPC in subversion.
> These contain the Google APIs as generated from the Google Discovery 
> Service (~70 APIS).
> 
> I am of the opinion that such Web APIs have meanwhile the same 
> importance as the native APIS that make up the desktop; the world is 
> increasingly connected to Internet, and Google, MS Office365 apis (and 
> many others) will become more and more part of the toolset of a programmer.

Are these really APIs, i.e. an interface between an application program 
and a local library, or are they actually communication protocols?

https://xkcd.com/1481/ applies.

Perhaps FPC/Lazarus, which is already a large project, should package 
things which take a URI as a parameter and return HTML/XML/JSON etc. 
separately.

Also there's the risk that Google will change or discontinue a service 
arbitrarily. They don't exactly have a good record in that area.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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