Easily build an API for your application with the tools provided in Seagull

Those of you following Seagull System's Doris product might have noticed we released an API to the service last month.

As some of our techie users will have guessed, we’ve had an API (Application Programming Interface) for Doris working for some time now, that’s the reason you can use a range of clients (iPhone, Dashboard widget, Opera widget) to access and update your account data.

But starting today we’ve made the API publicly available, see for yourself by checking out the Doris API documentation.

Using the easy-to-configure filter chain mechanism built into Seagull you only need to assemble a few standard tasks to create your own API, see this example for a REST service working with XML

filterChain="SGL_Task_Init,
    SGL_Task_ResolveManager,
    DRS_Task_AuthenticateRestRequest,
    SGL_Task_CustomHeaders,
    DRS_Task_GzCompress,
    DRS_Task_PhpToXmlSerializer,
    SGL_Task_XmlToPhpUnserializer,
    SGL_Task_CoreProcessor"

or JSON

filterChain  = "
    SGL_Task_Init,
    SGL_Task_ResolveManager,
    DRS_Task_AuthenticateRestRequest,
    SGL_Task_CustomHeaders,
    DRS_Task_GzCompress,
    DRS_Task_PhpToJsonSerializer,
    DRS_Task_JsonToPhpUnserializer,
    SGL_Task_CoreProcessor

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