API work
I’ve been tweeting over the last few days about the Encyclopedia API and how I’ve tried to start to work with it.
I have to say it is a comprehensive API, the best bit being that you can use pretty much the same calls on a CSE as a HE as a set of .dat files – so you can test your code on a local model (in effect, a throwaway) without damaging the core code in the CSE or HE.
But with complexity comes difficulty and danger – its possibly to completely corrupt your model when using the API – so I’m going to take care – however I’m not going to be using the update API – just the read-only API – so I should be safe….. shouldn’t I ????
