Are the Sharepoint Web Services too complex? Looking for something better?
I'm looking for a few people to help beta-test an alternative to Sharepoint's web services. The solution allows a simple "object modelish" approach to working with WSS, as shown by the following sample code snippets:
// display all fields of all items of all lists
ListsClient ListClient = new ListsClient();
foreach (ListDescriptor list in ListClient.GetLists("http://WssSite"))
{
Console.WriteLine("List {0} has {1} items",list.ListName,list.ListItems.Length.ToString());
foreach(ListItem item in list.ListItems)
{
Console.WriteLine("item {0} fields:",item["Title"]);
foreach(Field f in item.Fields)
Console.WriteLine("{0} = {1}",f.Name,f.Value);
}
}
// update all list items in the "Tasks" list which are due today
ListDescriptor tasks = ListClient.GetListItemsByFieldValue("http://WssSite","Tasks","DueDate",strToday);
foreach(ListItem task in tasks.ListItems)
{
task["Description"] += " <-- DUE TODAY!!";
ListClient.UpdateListItem("http://WssSite","Tasks",task);
}
It also solves some of the WSS web service pain-points, such as download/upload, checkin/checkout, etc.
Drop me a mail if you are interested. 3/3/2005 Update: The source is now available for download, more details here
