Is Seafile Web API 2.1 production ready?

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Hello!

I am planning to write a wrapper for Seafile’s Web API for native apps. The most important question is it ready for production? Let’s say that if I would wrap whole Web API 2.1 to my mobile app, it could provide same features as Seafile’s official app? Or for desktops. Does API support file syncing or I have to do that in different way?

Sorry if the questions are basic, it’s my first time working with file sync server.

Regards!

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Seafile’s web interface (Seahub) uses the API to communicate with the Seafile server.

It is up to you to decide if Seahub is production ready :wink:

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What about Seafile’s apps? How do they communicate with server?

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I am not a developer, you are.

You find the source code of the mobile apps and the sync client here: https://github.com/haiwen

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I went to iOS app’s source code, but I don’t understand Objective-C (at least most of the code). I forgot that desktop client is written mostly in cpp (which is easier to read for me than Obj-C) and there I have found that it uses web api 2.1 endpoints, so I think that file syncing (which uses Git’s algorithms) probably uses that as well.
If I am wrong, please correct me.

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The API is very stable! We have used it just recently to create an add-in for Microsoft Outlook. Before that, we used the web API to integrate Seafile functions in a product of our own:

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I was recently writing a client in Go (for rclone) and I found out that the documentation wasn’t up to date.

The documented API do work, but there are some better undocumented version. I discovered them in the seahub python code.

For example, to copy, move or rename a file or directory, the new api/v2.1/repos/_libraryID_/file/ and api/v2.1/repos/_libraryID_/dir/ work much better than the documented ones (api2/repos/_libraryID_/file/ and api2/repos/_libraryID_/dir/)

But apart from a few inconsistencies between calls (parameters and return values), it does the job :+1:

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Awesome! I saw documentation of api 2.1 in manual, but often I can’t open that site (throws error that site is not responding), but as I remember there wasn’t anything interesting about new app except new methods. Anyway, thanks! I’ll look into that.