AMF protocol to contrib

AMF protocol to contrib

by David Monllaó -
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Hi all,

We would be interested in knowing how many people is using AMF protocol.

We are thinking of moving it to contrib. It has not been actively maintained for some releases, but we found no comments in moodle.org about it nor tracker issues reporting bugs. The conclusions are that, it is awesome and perfect or nobody uses it. We failed to make the AMF test client work in 29 and master (I've even tried in 2.0) what makes me think that nobody is using it. We know of people using REST, XML-RPC and SOAP with Java, anyone using AMF?

Thanks in advance,

David

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Re: AMF protocol to contrib

by Matt Bury -
Picture of Plugin developers

Hi David,

I maintain the SWF Activity Module: https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=mod_swf

In Moodle 1.9, I couldn't get the Zend AMF library to work and so used amfPHP ( http://www.silexlabs.org/amfphp/ ) instead. However, something in Moodle 2.x breaks when used with amfPHP; the $USER object fails to instantiate correctly; and I couldn't find a fix. Since then I've been relying on URLVariables; not as powerful and flexible as AMF but at least they work.

Some members of the Moodle community can be decidedly hostile towards ActionScript and Flash which I think tends to drive away would-be adopters. I don't think that the Zend AMF library in Moodle would be missed.

Just my €0.02! smile

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