GSoC 2012 - Everything seems to be flowing well

Last week I've faced some problems due to URL confusion, but, it was easily fixed changing a little the approach that I was taking in the resources implementation.

In resume, this is what was implemented this week:

• All Media Server API methods without any kind of authentication. In this way, the whole defined actions (upload, update, download and delete) are working (in a very naive way, but still...);
• Simple tests just to verify if everything is working in a minimum condition;
• Documentation improvement at buddycloud's wiki;
• A test suite, where we can run all test cases developed so far.

I also started the implementation of the other main Media Server feature, the XMPP component. It will be responsible to communicate with the buddycloud server and ask about users permissions based on pub-sub. I'm expecting a lot of tricky coding challenges in this phase :-D

Other interesting information is about the authentication process that I'm planning to use for the Media Server: http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0070.html
It is a well defined XEP about how to authenticate HTTP requests via XMPP. Denis, the other buddycloud's GSoC student, has started a very interesting discussion about how would work the HTTP Pub-Sub API and the Media Server together using the XEP cited above: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/buddycloud-dev/5KOmqMKXEko

I'm planning to end the XMPP component in the next couple of weeks with the functionality of handling media for public buddycloud channels, this will allow a first 0.0.1 version deploy and further real tests. As usual, what I expect is to experience a lot of bugs and crashes, but not in everything (I hope so...).