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<h1><img class=nofloat src="P/gf-cloud.png" alt=""> GF Cloud Service API (preliminary)</h1>

The GF cloud service API provides the following functionality:

<ul>
  <li>The functionalty available in via the <strong>PGF service API</strong>,
  <li>The functionality provided by the commands in <strong>GF shell</strong>,
  <li>some additional services for
  grammar compilation and persistent storage of files in the cloud.
</ul>
<p>
The service is available from
<a href="http://cloud.grammaticalframework.org"><code>http://cloud.grammaticalframework.org</code></a>.

Users that have GF installed on their own computer can also
run the service locally by starting GF with the command <code>gf -server</code>.

<p>

<strong>This is preliminary and subject to change!</strong>

<h3>PGF Service</h3>

The GF Cloud Service supports the same set of PGF service requests as the
already available PGF web service. For example, a request like

<blockquote class=request>
<code>http://cloud.grammaticalframework.org/grammars/Foods.pgf?command=random</code>
</blockquote>

might return a result like

<blockquote class=response>
<code>[{"tree":"Pred (That Pizza) (Very Boring)"}]</code>
</blockquote>

<p>
For more info, see:
<ul>
  <li><a href="minibar/gf-web-api-examples.html">PGF web service API examples</a>.
  <li><a href="http://code.google.com/p/grammatical-framework/wiki/GFWebServiceAPI">PGF web service API documentation</a>.
</ul>

<h3>GF Shell Service</h3>
This service lets you execute arbitrary GF shell commands. Before you can do
this, you need to use the <code class=request>/new</code> command to obtain a
working directory (which also servces as a session identifier) on the server,
see below.

<dl class=api>
  <dt><code>/gfshell&amp;dir=</code>...<code>&amp;command=i+Foods.pgf</code>
  <dd>&nbsp;
  <dt><code>/gfshell&amp;dir=</code>...<code>&amp;command=gr</code>
  <dd><code>Pred (That Pizza) (Very Boring)</code>
</dl>

For documentation of GF shell commands, see:
<ul>
  <li><a href="http://www.grammaticalframework.org/doc/gf-shell-reference.html">GF Shell Reference</a>
</ul>

<h3>Additional cloud service</h3>

<dl class=api>
  <dt><code>/new</code>
  <dd>This generates a new working directory on the server, e.g.
    <code>/tmp/gfse.123456</code>.
    Most of the clouds service commands require that a working directory
    is specified in the <code>dir</code> parameter.
    The working directory is persistent, so clients are expected
    to remember and reuse it. Access to previously
    uploaded files requires that the same working directory is used.
  <dt><code>/parse?</code><var>path</var><code>=</code><var>source</var>
  <dd>This command can be used to check GF source code for syntax errors.
    It also converts GF source code to the JSON representation used in
    GFSE (the cloud-based GF grammar editor).
  <dt><code>/cloud?&amp;dir=</code>...<code>&amp;command=upload&amp;</code><var>path<sub>1</sub></var><code>=</code><var>source<sub>1</sub></var><code>&amp;</code><var>path<sub>2</sub></var><code>=</code><var>source<sub>2</sub></var><code>&amp;</code>...
  <dd>Upload files to be stored in the cloud.
  <dt><code>/cloud?&amp;dir=</code>...<code>&amp;command=make&amp;</code><var>path<sub>1</sub></var><code>=</code><var>source<sub>1</sub></var><code>&amp;</code><var>path<sub>2</sub></var><code>=</code><var>source<sub>2</sub></var><code>&amp;</code>...
  <dd>Upload grammar files and compile them into a PGF file.
  <dt><code>/cloud?&amp;dir=</code>...<code>&amp;command=download&amp;file=</code><var>path</var>
  <dd>Download the specified file.
  <dt><code>/cloud?&amp;dir=</code>...<code>&amp;command=ls&ext=.pgf</code>
  <dd><code>["Foods.pgf","Letter.pgf"]</code> (list files with the specified extension)
    
  <dt><code>/cloud?&amp;dir=</code>...<code>&amp;command=rm&amp;file=</code><var>path</var>
  <dd>Remove the specified file.
  <dt><code>/cloud?&amp;dir=</code>...<code>&amp;command=link_directories&newdir=</code>...
  <dd>Combine server directores. This is used by GFSE to share grammars
    between multiple devices.
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