Connector Repository Introduction

The Connector Framework is a novel technology which makes it easy to construct gateways, or APIs, for remote software systems which only expose a user-oriented web-interface. The technology makes it easy to build software which accesses such systems – so that developers can focus their attention on building added-value services.

See a brief introductory video here.

Download product description.

This eighteen-minute video walks through the process of using the Builder to create and execute a connector, and forms a useful tutorial introduction before reading the main documentation.

Connector Repository

The Connector Repository requires authentication. You can access the public area with public/public. To access other areas, or set up your own area, contact Index Data.

To access different repositories, use a URL that looks like http://username:password@cfrepo.indexdata.com/repo.pl

What is this?

This is an admin interface for maintaining connectors.

Description

File name local file name on the file system
Latest Versions time of last modification for uploaded and connectors in production
Title human readable name of the connector
Author who wrote the connector
Status status of the connector: new, live, stale
Action administrative tasks: release, delete, retract

Status:

Action:

The action depends on the current status:

Workflow

  1. new connector: edit -> upload -> test -> release
  2. existing connector live: retract (from production to upload)
  3. existing connector upload (state new, stale): delete or test -> release

Technology

This metasearch interface is based on the Connector Framework from Index Data.