Minimum effort - REST assured

The news is just out that Switzerland’s major retailer Migros is now managing its entire website with censhare. Our censhare online channel is powerful, without a doubt, but it does have its complexities and is a bit over-dimensioned for very small scale solutions.

We are managing the event photos of one of my customers in censhare (what else?). The customer requirements were clearly stated: "We want to have the photos on our website." The photographer's requirements were also clear: "I don't want to have any additional effort." And my requirements were straight forward: "I want the best solution and it should be as simple as possible."

These three requirements were astonishingly easy to meet with censhare. REST! censhare supports this web technology and offers a simple and well documented interface enabling the access to data and meta-information via REST.

Thanks to these capabilities a script was generated - in the course of a rainy weekend while I was nursing a cold - that extracts the customer images out of censhare via REST, loads them onto the Web server and puts them in intermediate storage there for faster availability.

In this way the customer can offer all of the relevant photos on his website, the photographer can publish the photos with a single click and I was able to conveniently link a website to censhare in the course of four hours.

Big thanks to censhare and to REST!

And what's next?

Peter Laschtowitz

Peter Laschtowitz started as a trainee IT specialist at censhare in 2006, and has been a staff member of censhare IT Services since 2009. He particularly values contact with very different individuals in this area, as well as the many and varied opportunities for fieldwork at clients' premises. He is an enthusiastic events photographer, cook and snowboarder when censhare and his terminal allow him time.

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