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Then do the following: | Then do the following: | ||
cd /path/to/mahara/htdocs/auth | |||
tar -xzf /path/to/mahara-contrib-auth-webservice-master.tar.gz | |||
mv mahara-contrib-auth-webservice webservice | |||
cd /path/to/mahara/htdocs/artefact | |||
tar -xzf /path/to/mahara-contrib-artefact-webservice-master.tar.gz | |||
mv mahara-contrib-artefact-webservice webservice | |||
You should now have the two necessary modules in place. | You should now have the two necessary modules in place. | ||
Now login as admin to Mahara, and go through the upgrade process to complete the install. | Now login as admin to Mahara, and go through the upgrade process to complete the install. | ||
In order to make the auth/webservice module available, you should add this as an authentication plugin for each Institution that requires access. Do this via the admin/users/institutions.php page. | In order to make the auth/webservice module available, you should add this as an authentication plugin for each Institution that requires access. Do this via the admin/users/institutions.php page. | ||
==Testing== | |||
==Developing Functions for Services== | |||
==Example Clients== | |||
==Core Function Interfaces== | |||
Revision as of 08:04, 23 Haziran 2011
Web Services support for Mahara
- Artefact Webservices#
[Web Services](https://gitorious.org/mahara-contrib/artefact-webservice) support for Mahara.
The Web Services support is based on the webservices subsystem for Moodle and provides REST, XML-RPC, and SOAP alternatives for any registered function. The REST interface also supports JSON.
- Installation Instructions
This requires the simple authentication module auth/webservice See https://gitorious.org/mahara-contrib/auth-webservice
To install you need to download both modules:
get https://gitorious.org/mahara-contrib/artefact-webservice/archive-tarball/master and https://gitorious.org/mahara-contrib/auth-webservice/archive-tarball/master
Then do the following:
cd /path/to/mahara/htdocs/auth tar -xzf /path/to/mahara-contrib-auth-webservice-master.tar.gz mv mahara-contrib-auth-webservice webservice cd /path/to/mahara/htdocs/artefact tar -xzf /path/to/mahara-contrib-artefact-webservice-master.tar.gz mv mahara-contrib-artefact-webservice webservice
You should now have the two necessary modules in place.
Now login as admin to Mahara, and go through the upgrade process to complete the install. In order to make the auth/webservice module available, you should add this as an authentication plugin for each Institution that requires access. Do this via the admin/users/institutions.php page.