API wishlist?

[momijizukamori]

So my workplace gives us a chance twice a year to work on anything we want for a few days, work-related or otherwise, and I thought I'd use some of my time to actually get the new API into a state where we can make it live. With that in mind! What endpoints would you like to see implemented? We're making this Swagger/OpenAPI-compliant, so everything takes JSON as arguments and return JSON formatted data. Stuff already on the list to do or partially done:

/api/v1/users/{username} - GET, shows info about the user (specific info TBD; subset of profile, probably?)
/api/v1/users/{username}/icons - GET, lists icons
/api/v1/users/{username}/icons/{iconid} - GET, returns icon data
/api/v1/users/{username}/journals - GET, returns list of journals with write access.
-- for now, returns only user's primary journal
/api/v1/journals/{username}/accesslists - GET, list of access lists for journal
/api/v1/journals/{username}/tags - GET, list of tags for journal
/api/v1/journals/{username}/xpostaccounts - GET list of xpost accounts
/api/v1/moods - GET list of moods
/api/v1/commentsettings - GET list of allowed comment settings
/api/v1/journals/{username}/entries - POST new entry, GET list of recent entries
/api/v1/journals/{username}/entries/{id} - POST edit entry, GET specific entry
/api/v1/journals/{username}/files - POST new file
/api/v1/spec - GET, returns a description of the API

(Mark and D, as usual, get the final say - some stuff people want may end up being security/privacy risks in non-obvious ways)

Comments

[siderea]

I'd like to see access to the inbox, too. It would be great to be able to clients that backup and manage the inbox.

Also, I'm concerned that if the API manages to cause clients to happen, and people start DWing from the phones or desktop apps or whatever, and those don't support the inbox, it will become even more impossible to direct-message people, because those users will never see anything about it, unless they have turned on email notification (which apparently is not on by default?)

I don't just want the API to support the inbox, I kinda want inbox support to be mandatory for DW posting/reading clients. Because I'm afraid that otherwise clients will turn the inbox into dead.letter.

[msilverstar]

ONG access to the inbox, I have 5K messages from importing a big LJ and cannot stand deleting them 10 at a time. I would like to select based on

Your entries have failed to import and will not be retried.
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and delete them all!!!

I asked Denise when I reported it but she was more interested in fixing the inbox spam than deleting from my personal inbox.