Tempo API Changes in Beta

2009-06-09 20:00:00 -0400

As we’ve mentioned before, we’ve got a beta of the next version of Tempo running. Most of the changes we made were with regard to user interface, but there are a couple of changes and enhancements (we think) to the API.

Accordingly, I’ve updated the API documentation (this was long overdue), leaving a beta notice on new methods and methods that are changing or going away.

If you have code that relies on the Tempo API, please get in touch with us so we can point you at the beta URL and help with the transition.

To summarize the changes:

• We are introducing a reports API. It’s not complete, but it’s a start.
• By popular demand, /entries, /projects, and now /reports support an id[] parameter for pulling specific entities in one call.
• Searching for entries has been moved to /reports/search GET, replacing /entries/search POST. The /entries/search URL will redirect to /reports/search for now, but you’re better off migrating sooner than later.
• The /entries GET method used to provide the same data you’d get from /entries/search if you didn’t specify any search criteria — a default context. Instead, /entries will now provide a listing of your own entries.

Some folks have asked us for JSON support, and while we’d really like to provide that now, it will be somewhat burdensome to implement, and will be available to us out-of-the-box in Rails 3, thanks to the provides/display feature of Merb.

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