[ome-devel] OMERO REST HTTP API ?

[Christian Carsten Sachs]

Hello Ola,

thank you for the response.
I'm aware of the current Web Gateway methods.
I was unaware of the ?username=...&password=... scheme, and I think it 
should be definitely added to the documentation (I didn't see it there).

For my use cases (allow data export to OMERO from another software), an 
API allowing read/write access to the whole model would be necessary. 
With the Web Gateway, e.g. I do not see any methods for creating 
Projects, Datasets, Images anew. Furthermore, no methods for raw pixel 
data access (writing and reading ...) seem to exist.

Thus I'm inquiring about this direction ...

Regards,
Christian Sachs



On 02/02/2015 04:51 PM, Aleksandra Tarkowska (Staff) wrote:
> Dear Christian,
>
> We have been discussing that problem in the past although we haven't
> received enough detailed feedback to cover all of the possible requests.
> We currently offer some functionality, mostly covers GET. Mainly is
> described in
> https://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/omero5/developers/Web/WebGatewa
> y.html#web-services. The full list is available on
> http://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/omero/5.0.6/api/epydoc/omeroweb.webgate
> way.urls-module.html
>
> Currently you can only log in via GET
> http://HOST/webclient/login/?username=USERNAME&password=PASSWORD&server=1.
> We are planning to extend it and allow to use OMERO session ID as a token.
> This will be available soon.
>
>
> Kind regards
> Ola
>
>
>
>
>
> On 02/02/2015 12:57, "Christian Carsten Sachs" <c.sachs at fz-juelich.de>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I was wondering if there are any current plans on a REST HTTP API for
>> OMERO access. So far I could find neither mailing list discussions, nor
>> code fragments on github pointing to something like that (though my
>> searches might obviously be not exhaustive).
>>
>> The point is, that accessing OMERO via ICE has certain downsides: it is
>> a very large dependency; best practice seems to keep ICE and OMERO
>> versions always matched which make updates far-reaching; having ICE and
>> OMERO library parts embedded forces one to license the result via GPL ...
>>
>> Thus I think a light-weight API adhering to modern web standards would
>> be great. Furthermore, there exists a plethora of libraries for that
>> task in many languages, coupled with JSON as serialization, almost every
>> modern language becomes first class supported. Access to OMERO with
>> minimal library dependencies and without license issues, from a range of
>> different languages, would be great.
>>
>> (As a remark for anyone who might be mistaken; I do not mean additions
>> to the currently existing Web API, as it follows different paradigms. A
>> REST HTTP API e.g. would not follow a log-in scheme coupled to the web
>> interface, but rather use token or the like, for one-shot requests
>> performing certain actions ... A REST HTTP API would provide nearly all
>> of the features the APIs provide ...)
>>
>> Surely I'm not the first one to think about something like that, thus
>> I'd like to ask if there are plans, or if it wouldn't be wasted work
>> time to take a look at the situation myself. (I recently wrote a quick
>> prototype for some tests and might extend that otherwise)
>>
>> Regards,
>> Christian Sachs
>>
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