[Developers] Write access from Acre apps

[Stefano Mazzocchi]

Jim Pick wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been playing around with Acre.  Very cool!
> 
> I'm interested in a way to write little editing utilities to make it 
> more efficient to add/edit large sets of data, by multiple users.
> 
> Are there any plans for exposing write access to Acre apps?  On the 
> wiki, I see a acre.freebase.MqlRead, but no acre.freebase.MqlWrite.
> 
> Actually, there does seem to be an API method if you search for it.  I 
> tried to use it, but it failed due to an authentication failure.  Not a 
> big surprise there, as I can see how it might be a bit dangerous if any 
> app could just write anything as the logged-in user that happened to 
> navigate to it.
> 
> I know I can use the mqlwrite service, and request users names and 
> passwords.  That's the classic "password anti-pattern" however (like 
> twitterank).  I do see some references to OAuth here and there, eg.
> 
> http://oauth.stefanomazzocchi.user.dev.freebaseapps.com/
> 
> I guess that's going to be the solution?

Yes, the last release of Freebase supports OAuth and we're working on 
implementing OAuth as a library in Acre that you can import an use from 
your own app (that's what the

BTW, this is really high on our priority list, so it should land in 
production soon.

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Stefano Mazzocchi                              Application Catalyst
Metaweb Technologies, Inc.                      stefano at metaweb.com
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