Category definition for Clara.io SDK

bhouston 2013-08-14 00:08:40 UTC #1

For discussing customizing Clara.io via our SDK.

gotwig 2013-08-14 01:52:00 UTC #2

What sort of API will it offer?
Does this use some sort of JSON, REST based API communication via simple HTTP queries and an API key?

What is very very important to me: Will there be limits in usage of the API? I hate limited API's, just saying >_<

Is it meant to run only with directly comunicating to your servers, or can ClaraIO also be run somehow inhouse (for security reasons of course).

Can we develop our own extensions for it, and bundle them in a somehow standalone manner? (similar to ready-to-install extensions) If so, what about something like a marketplace or extension center?

bhouston 2013-08-14 08:11:33 UTC #3

We have both an internal extension API for creating commands (menu items), importers/exporters and operators/modifiers. We also have a REST API which uses JSON back and forth along with an API key.

We can also do licensing of Clara.io so that you can run it internally.

Having a marketplace is a really good idea but that it won't happen immediately.

bhouston 2013-08-14 08:35:37 UTC #4

Once you are logged in to Clara.io, you can find some of the documentation for plugins here:

http://clara.io/learn/Plugins

More documentation for importers and exporters as well as the REST API documentation should be available in a week or so time.

gotwig 2013-08-14 10:25:41 UTC #5

WoW, this sounds great, I know a lot of (open source) projects, which use a custom pipeline for bulding their own models for a game.

I think about creating models for Morrowind/OpenMW, under this Scenario: http://forum.openmw.org/viewforum.php?f=25

For this we need some custom tools to convert the model into a NIF model:
http://niftools.sourceforge.net/wiki/Nif_Format

I think for this we need to make use of the REST API, as we don't want to convert this huge asset of NIFTools to Javascript =)