Wikinews:Tech/Reader Server

Purpose

Serve as a "proxy" for the mobile reader apps such as Android Reader to the Wikinews server.

Components

• Daemon - Check for new stories every X minutes and download to database
• API - Handle requests from the client

API Calls

latest

• POST: ?mode=latest
• Return Format: JSON
• Return Data:
  • 20 rows
  • ID, title, url, revid, when

latestfull

• POST: ?mode=latestfull
• Return Format: JSON
• Return Data:
  • 20 rows
  • ID, title, url, revid, when, fulltext

textonly

• POST: ?mode=textonly, id=ITEMID
• Return Format: text-only
• Return Data: 1 articles text

submitbug

• POST: mode=submitbug, email=EMAILVAL, summary=SUMMARYVAL, desc=FULLDESCVAL
• Return Format:
• Return Data: