GDAPI

October 26, 2005 in Java

I tried GDAPI last night (OT at home ) . Basicly, it provides following features:

• Access windows registry, this is used to get the search_url defined by Google Desktop
• Generate query string according to Google Desktop query schema
• Issue request and receive response via HTTP
• Java Data Binding
  • schema validation
  • XML Object (marshall and unmarshall)

I have to admit it provides a very simple API to do this query stuff, and along with good additional functionality such as Data Binding.

However, this is too much for me. Actually, what I need are just two things, registry accessing and the HTTP stuff. Since GD is still in its BETA version, the query and xml schemas could be still changed in the future. And how to consume the output of the searching is determined the users rather than the API itself.

Most work of this API is focus on data binding stuff, it could be done as an additional enhancement based on these two kernel function(registry and http mentioned above). And they could be designed as feasible as possible in order to embrace future changes easily.