GSoC/2018/StatusReports/ThanhTrung

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digiKam: Web Services tools authentication with OAuth2

digiKam is a desktop application for photos management. digiKam provides a wide range of plugins for exporting photos to web services (e.g dropbox, flickr, facebook, etc.) alowing users to easily upload their photos to cloud storage services or share photos on social networks.

Current export tool authentication process makes it far from easy-to-use for users. In addition, authentication protocols varies much for each web service, generating many difficulties for implementation and code maintaining. Hence, this project is aimed to resolve those problems by porting authentication flow with O2 library, in order to make digiKam export tool more user-friendly and more flexible for development and maintenance.

Mentors : Maik Qualmann, Gilles Caulier

Project Goals

  • Port export plugins with O2 library.
  • Factor codes of new wizard for export plugins.
  • Accomplish new wizard with features for photo processing before uploading.

Work report

Coding period : Phase one (May 14th to June 15th)

This phase is to port 3 digiKam web services : Google, Facebook and Smugmug to O2. It is required to change the authentication flow but still preserve main functionalities. In general, work for this part is nearly done, except some minor existant bugs to be resolved.

According to my initial plan, I must also have finished Youtube Uploader by this time. However, since porting these web services to O2 is more important and Youtube Uploader can be finished in phase two of project, when i will be working on code factorization for other web services, the whole first part of project was then spent on porting to O2.

For Smugmug : -

Important Links

Proposal Link

Project Proposal

Contacts

Email: [email protected]

Github: TrungDinhT