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Zend Framework: Zend_Service_Hitmeister Component Proposal

Table of Contents

1. Overview

Hitmeister is a marketplace for DVDs, Books, Games, CDs and audiobooks in Germany (serving all of Europe). Expansion into new categories will come in the summer.

Zend_Service_Hitmeister is a PHP client for the Hitmeister API. The API consists of two main functionality blocks:
a) Querying Hitmeister for information about an item
b) Managing a Seller's inventory on the site

2. References

• Hitmeister
• Interface Guide

3. Component Requirements, Constraints, and Acceptance Criteria

• This component will implement the Hitmeister API requests for receiving information about an item
• This component will not implement the API requests for managing inventory in the first release
• This component will parse and return server responses as intuitive data objects.
• This component will validate any API request option before any HTTP request
• This component will throw an Exception in case of a Hitmeister response error

4. Dependencies on Other Framework Components

• Zend_Service_Abstract
• Zend_Service_Exception
• Zend_Uri
• Zend_HTTP_Client

5. Theory of Operation

This component generates requests to the Hitmeister API.

6. Milestones / Tasks

• Milestone 1: design notes will be published here including use cases
• Milestone 2: Working prototype checked into the incubator supporting use cases
• Milestone 3: Unit tests exist, work, and are checked into SVN.
• Milestone 4: Initial documentation exists.
• Milestones 5-8: Repeat above for all API commands

7. Class Index

• Zend_Service_Hitmeister

8. Use Cases

UC-01

... (see good use cases book)

9. Class Skeletons