API for Plone 4?

Question

I am wondering if Plone 4 has an API. I do not see the document registered on api.plone.org.

Essentially, what I would like to do is the contents of the pipeline on the Plone page. We have several lookup tables in MySQL that, if their contents can be migrated to Plone, will allow us to find and index content in Plone. These tables are updated approximately four times a year, so each time it is transmitted through channels, it becomes a new version of the same document.

Answer 1

api.plone.org is deprecated.

If you want to know how to program Plone with Python, read here:

http://collective-docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html

However, Plone is no different from any other Python program. You can use standard Python MySQL libraries and frameworks with Plone.

There is a framework for importing content into Plone called Transmogrifier:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/collective.transmogrifier/1.0

And various subpackages:

http://plone.org/products/mr.migrator

http://www.slideshare.net/regebro/transmogrifier-migrating-to-plone-with-less-pain-2387600

Plone Conference 2011 provided an example of importing Liferay CMS SQL data into Plone, but AFAIK, this presentation is not yet online.

In any case, Advanced Python skills are required.