Java API

[fransisco]

Hi everybody,

We are creating a Java Api to access directadmin panel and access many directadmins functions. We would like to know what you people think and have ideas which can improve the speed of production.

[S2S-Robert]

What practical use would java have? I fail to grasp the specific benefits of having a java control panel, but that could be due to the fact I'm not a java programmer :D

[l0rdphi1]

I can't say I see any benefit either. Anything done in Java related to a webpanel can be done in PHP, and PHP is more of a standard for such things. :)

[fransisco]

Dear Friends,

Thank you for you valuable time in this forum. I just want to add that as a developer we have to consider developing functions for different languages. API is a model through which developers interact with 2 components. I asume a case in my hand in which the client has built a beautiful application in Java and now wants to plug in directadmin to it.
I as a developer would like to help the client and help him interact with DA since it is now ganing worldwide acceptance.

My request to all you flocks is ; instead of just saying why not PHP can anyone just come up and give me more suggestions since I have already started working on the JAVA API. We just dont want to waste any time.

Thanks again for a wonderful forum,
Fransisco

[l0rdphi1]

What kind of suggestions are you after? For the PHP API I've only provided a simple gateway to "fake" all the <form>'s DA uses interally, and of course the PHP API works great for DA's documented APIs (http://www.directadmin.com/api.html).

[fransisco]

Hi ,
I am looking for creating the auto login feature in JSP . We need to auto login and then call the CREATE functions.

I checked your class and it seems you have designed the method based on sockets.I would appreciate if you give me more info like how the baisc functionality is.


Thanks :)

[l0rdphi1]

Well, here's an example that displays a list of all the users on a machine: http://www.l0rdphi1.com/junk/httpsocket/example.show_all_users.phps

Any of the HTML forms inside DA (create user, domain; anything) can be faked by changing the '/CMD_API_SHOW_ALL_USERS' part in the above example. Say you want to add a domain to user X's account:<?php

include 'httpsocket.php';

$sock = new HTTPSocket;

$sock->connect('yoursite.com',2222);

$sock->set_login('{X_username}','{X_password}');
$sock->set_method('POST');

$sock->query('/CMD_DOMAIN',
array(
'action' => 'create',
'domain' => '{X_new_domain}',
'ubandwidth' => 'unlimited',
'uquota' => 'unlimited',
'ssl' => 'ON',
'cgi' => 'ON',
'php' => 'ON',
'create' => 'Create'
));
$result = $sock->fetch_body();

echo $result;

?>Note that all tokens save for the CMD_API_* ones will return their normal in-DA HTML output.

[l0rdphi1]

Originally posted by l0rdphi1
<?php [...]
$sock->set_login('{X_username}','{X_password}');
[...] ?>Actually, in place of the above code snip, it may be better to use:<?php
$sock->set_login('admin|{X_username}','{admin_password}');
?>Using that you won't have to keep users' passwords. :)