new file formats for import

[Miika Turkia]

On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Rainer Mohr <mail at klemmkeil.de> wrote:
> Hi Dirk,
>
>> I like the idea of pointing people to divelogs.de as a way to convert
>> files.
>> Maybe we could come up with an API that would allow even tighter
>> integration of
>> Subsurface and divelogs.de? Basically a way to simply synchronize the data
>> that
>> is maintained locally and in "the cloud" (i.e., divelogs.de)?
>> Diveboard.com offers
>> something like that.
>>
>> Just wondering…
>
> Sure, an "API" already exists and is ready to use :-) Diving Log 5.0 has
> implemented this already and it works great
>
> It's based completely on the DLD file format (both ways), so you already
> have the reading part in place.
> To upload your dives, you will need to create a DLD file and POST it along
> with your username and password to a specific URL.
> Downloading is just as easy, Username and password POSTed to another URL
> (optionally with the IDs of the dives you want, simply comma separated)
> To get the list of available dives (and their IDs), there is a third URL,
> that you POST username and password to, Result is very simple XML.
>
> All three URLs return XML with the result for feedback.
>
> Here is a page where you can try it all out:
> http://www.divelogs.de/dl_api.html
>
> Haven't written any documentation yet, but just trying it out and looking
> into the page source for the URLs to POST to should explain 95% of it all.
>
> See if you can work with that and if something is unclear, shoot. I'll try
> to put some simple documentation on the page today

I think Dirk was hoping for the help in parsing the OceanLog and
getting back understandable logs. So we would be uploading the MS
Access DB (or the .txt?) and receiving a nicely parsed DLD back. Or we
could be uploading some other divelog formats we do not support
ourselves for parsing.

miika