Mobile Vikings in The Netherlands

[Bram Vandeperre]

Hi,

when will we get further information on how to implement dutch APIs? Will they be the same with another phone numer? Or how will this be arranged?

Also, as a matter of personal interest: will there be a customer counter API like in Belgium? just so I can add them to the Belgian overview located at the following URL:

http://mv.b12e.be/customers/

Thanks!

Bram

[Koen Vossen]

Hi Bram,

We're currently busy developing the Dutch site, it will not feature a customer-facing API on release. We'll try to add this in the future though.

Kind regards,

Koen Vossen
Developer at Mobile Vikings | http://mobilevikings.com

[Davy Loots]

Hi Bram,

It's certainly on the short-term roadmap, but we first need to familiarize ourselves with the performance of the new systems. Adding a public API potentially adds a lot of stress on the platform, including the operator platform. All the wonderful apps you boys and girls wrote in Belgium are generating more traffic than the web site, so we have to be very careful. Also, we'll do a better job at defining an API once we have real data to work with. 

The customer counter is not yet foreseen :-)

Cheers,

Davy

2012/12/4 Koen Vossen <koen....@mobilevikings.com>

[Bram Vandeperre]

So, you're telling me we should be updating our Add-on/App/... details to contain text explaining YOU are not ready for this and thus we cannot provide details for Dutch customers through our apps??

In the best case, we'll see a combined API (especially when rolling out in even more companies) which just give results based on the phone number's country code.

Op dinsdag 4 december 2012 17:07:22 UTC+1 schreef Davy Loots het volgende:

[jerrevds]

Second that, a combined API would be nice...

[Davy Loots]

Hi Bram,

I hope you can understand that opening up an API is not a trivial task. It's not the actual implementation that is the problem, it's convincing everyone (including ourselves) that doing so is a responsible thing to do. Our API gives almost direct access to the critical network systems of the operator. Access that is normally protected by very high walls and procedures, and for a very good reason. We are very aware of the positive effect for our members and ourselves of having a public API and are trying to open up what we can. That's why the API has been on our mind from the moment we started working on supporting this new country. In fact, there are several efforts ongoing to provide some cool added functionality for the Belgian one as well. In both cases we are doing what we can, and making progress, albeit not as fast as we would like... I'm sorry if this - in the mean time - results in users contacting you (the developers) for these missing features. If we can help with this communication, let us know.

Regarding the combined API: obviously we aim for a clean and consistent API (one that we would like to use ourselves). There are some country specific things that might not always make a unified API possible. For example, the bundles behave a bit different in both countries which is a result of differences in underlying systems. We'll try to post some info of the new API here as soon as we have a proposal for you to comment upon.

You're free to contact me if you have any further comments or questions.

Cheers,

Davy

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[Bram Vandeperre]

Awesome, can I copy paste this?

Also: did something change on the Belgian usage API? I seem to be getting blanks in Fireviking for no reason - I'm at work so can't investigate it until tonight, just asking.

Op woensdag 5 december 2012 14:04:18 UTC+1 schreef Davy Loots het volgende:

[Davy Loots]

I think it's simpler if you put something more general and simply blame us :-). Something like 'There is no API available yet for Mobile Vikings Netherlands so this app cannot support it at this time. We will update the app as soon as it's available. For more information contact Mobile Vikings."

Hopefully we can give you access soon!

By my knowledge nothing has changed on the Belgian API these past days. If you can give me a concrete example we'll check it out.

Cheers,

Davy

[Bram Vandeperre]

It solved itself, I guess it was a glitch.

Thanks ;)

Op woensdag 5 december 2012 17:39:41 UTC+1 schreef Davy Loots het volgende:

[jerrevds]

Hi,

Is there already more information regarding the dutch API?

[Koen Vossen]

On Thursday, December 27, 2012 2:35:44 PM UTC+1, jerrevds wrote:

Is there already more information regarding the dutch API?

Not yet, we'll keep you posted.

Koen Vossen

Developer at Mobile Vikings | http://mobilevikings.com/

[My Viking app]

Any updates?

[Tom Claus]

Sorry, not yet. 

Currently were still in discussions about this with our network administrator. You'll be the first to hear more about this as soon as we know more.

[Bram Vandeperre]

Any news? It's been over half a year now.

[Bram Vandeperre]

*bump*

Op dinsdag 11 juni 2013 11:38:43 UTC+2 schreef Bram Vandeperre:

[My Viking app]

Does Mobile Vikings have any idea of how the APIs will be structured or work for NL & PL? I'm about to release a new version of My Viking for iOS and was hoping Mobile Vikings could give some insight in the approach of the API's. If the foreign APIs differ a lot from the current implementation, I might have to take this into account and update my architecture to support possible (drastic) API changes.

It would help us developers a lot, if we knew the high level approach of the APIs and possible an ETA?

- Will there be different endpoints for each country or will the existing endpoint be reused?

- Will the methods & responses be the same for each country?

Yannick

[Steven Reekmans]

There is currently no API in NL and PL..

And it is not yet clear if we will develop one in the near future.

Cheers,

Steven Reekmans

Software Engineer

Mobile Vikings

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