[sword-devel] CORS API

[Simon Biggs]

I want to be able to make a progressive web app using Angular. I want it to
be able to download the resources from crosswire and store them with
IndexedDB. The advantage of this is nothing needs to be installed on the
users machine, everything I write immediately works on every operating
system. And because of IndexedDB all Bible resources can be accessed
offline. Because of the progressive webapp infrastructure the website
itself will also be able to be accessed offline.

If I was to place a server between the webapp and the user the user would
not be able to download the resources offline. That would surmount to
redistribution by myself. However, if the client webapp directly downloads
from crosswire via a REST API then that fulfills your distribution
agreements.


On Wed, 28 Dec 2016, 6:06 AM <sword-devel-request at crosswire.org> wrote:

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> From: "Troy A. Griffitts" <scribe at crosswire.org>
> To: "SWORD Developers' Collaboration Forum" <sword-devel at crosswire.org>
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> Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2016 11:47:43 -0700
> Subject: Re: [sword-devel] CORS API
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> Hi Simon,
>
> Thanks for your ideas.  I'm interested to hear a little about the use
> cases you are targeting.  Are you trying to server offline browser users in
> general, or do you have a specific case you have in mind?
>
> The background here is that we typically don't encourage transferring data
> from our format to another.  Though we've accumulated a large library of
> works and that, in itself, is useful to other engineer, we don't curate any
> of these individual modules and simply have done the work to track down
> each authoritative source, get permission for distribution and use as
> openly as can be obtained from their curator, and then to convert their
> primary data source into our module format.  This doesn't pass along any
> rights for use to other projects outside those of CrossWire, and also
> doesn't provide a primary source for any of this material-- which an lead
> to multiplied data conversion issues when moving on to a second jump from
> the primary source.
>
> We have a C++ engine which runs on most any device you might wish to
> support (including web server)-- with many bindings for most popular
> scripting languages, and also a native Java engine as well.  Both of these
> can be used to discover, install, and access our entire library, if you'd
> like to start a new application in our community or contribute to an
> existing solution.
>
> Two web applications which use our engines and might interest you are:
>
> http://crosswire.org/study
>
> http://stepbible.org
>
> Hope this helps.  Welcome!  Looking forward to sharing in service together,
>
> Troy
>
>
>
> On 12/26/2016 03:32 AM, Simon Biggs wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I was hoping to help set up a CORS API for transfer of crosswire resources
> to web apps. My hope was to be able to make something simple, probably
> written in Python with the Tornado module and using the sword SWIG
> bindings.
>
> My thought is the API would simply send whole resources, such as a whole
> Bible translation. Any webapp interfacing with the API would likely
> download the resources once per user and store them within the browser's
> IndexedDB.
>
> I'm not sure what is the best format to use for the transmitted content.
> The easiest option might be using something like the plain text OSIS
> format. From my limited exposure to this project that would mean minimal
> work on the server end required to make as many resources as possible able
> to be sent this way. What to then do with the OSIS file and how to store it
> in the IndexedDB would be up to the client side programmer.
>
> What are your thoughts? Does anyone have any recommendations for
> improvement? If I made something like this, is this something that
> crosswire would be willing to have running on their server for resource
> distribution?
>
> Thank you,
> Simon
>
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