Signs of hope - Blue Tracker

#1 - Sept. 2, 2014, 11:37 a.m.

Like many of you, I’ve been very annoyed by the lack of updates regarding the APIs. That being said, the changes so far mentioned in the upcoming September feature pack (Sept. 9th) suggests that ArenaNet is dog-fooding the mythical API v2.

Things like the new crafting UI and more sophisticated, fine-grained improvements to the wardrobe all suggest that the back-end has been upgraded with services which and improve the client experience.

The biggest indication IMO is that, in two days, we get to see what “Trading Post 2.0” is all about.

I’m not saying this means that we, the public developers, will get to use any of this by the time September feature pack is released. But it might demonstrate that there has been progress on the APIs.

Pat Cavit

#12 - Sept. 12, 2014, 6:46 p.m.

A few, most of /v2 is just exposing existing /v1 data in a cleaner & more useful way. We’ll keep adding new APIs as they make sense to it, but don’t expect seismic shifts in the data you can get out.

Pat Cavit

#14 - Sept. 12, 2014, 7:09 p.m.

Unsure, I wasn’t involved in the original genesis of the /v2 APIs and only tangentially involved in /v1.

Worth looking at, but I suspect there’s some privacy concerns there until we get authenticated APIs in place.

Pat Cavit

#18 - Sept. 15, 2014, 1:44 p.m.

StevenL.3761:
Pat, is it just you maintaining the public API now?

Nope, I did a bunch of work on a first version of the /v2 commerce APIs (& the quaggan API because quaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaggans). There’s another programmer working on that stuff now fortunately.