Friday
11Sep2009
App Tastic
Friday, September 11, 2009 at 1:10AM
I try and keep my personal blog (bgeek.net) as free from my work stuff as possible to avoid any conflict of interest, but occasionally there are some milestones that I just have to blog about.
Xero API v2 is one of those milestones.
We've been working long and hard (much to my wife's disquiet) on this release and I'm so pleased to finally be able to get it out the door.
We've tagged the release as a developer preview as the authentication mode is OAuth and we currently have some work to do before we switch on support for long term access tokens (currently they're limited to 30 minute access lengths to mimic user sessions in the application)
Once we have some infrastructure in place we'll be relaxing this limit for most web based providers (due to privacy issues we're unlikely to relax the time limit for desktop based software)
The aim of the Xero API has always been to allow people to use Xero as an online accounting engine, and I believe we've taken a significant step forward on this.
I've also recorded a getting started tutorial screen cast available here:
[http://blog.xero.com/developer/api-guides/](http://blog.xero.com/developer/api-guides/)
sorry about the bad quality, it's my first ever screen cast and I seriously underestimated the effort that would be involved... when I regather my strength I aim to rerecord the screen-caps at a much higher resolution...
for now I hope its a suitable example for getting up and running with OAuth and the Xero API
Xero API v2 is one of those milestones.
We've been working long and hard (much to my wife's disquiet) on this release and I'm so pleased to finally be able to get it out the door.
We've tagged the release as a developer preview as the authentication mode is OAuth and we currently have some work to do before we switch on support for long term access tokens (currently they're limited to 30 minute access lengths to mimic user sessions in the application)
Once we have some infrastructure in place we'll be relaxing this limit for most web based providers (due to privacy issues we're unlikely to relax the time limit for desktop based software)
The aim of the Xero API has always been to allow people to use Xero as an online accounting engine, and I believe we've taken a significant step forward on this.
I've also recorded a getting started tutorial screen cast available here:
[http://blog.xero.com/developer/api-guides/](http://blog.xero.com/developer/api-guides/)
sorry about the bad quality, it's my first ever screen cast and I seriously underestimated the effort that would be involved... when I regather my strength I aim to rerecord the screen-caps at a much higher resolution...
for now I hope its a suitable example for getting up and running with OAuth and the Xero API
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