🎯 What can I work on ? (Java SDK)

[teolemon]

Simplify developer flow

• Automatic publication of the package
• Generate automatic documentation from code

Ideas

• Reuse material from the Android app from before the Kotlin rewrite ?

Add new and missing features

• New APIs: /~https://github.com/openfoodfacts/api-documentation/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22new+api+to+document%22
• Existing APIs: /~https://github.com/openfoodfacts/api-documentation/

GENERAL

• Multilingual (180 languages are supported)
• Create users
• Check if users exist

READ

• Product: you can retrieve information about products
• Product images (get product image by field, size and language, current fields are: Front, Ingredients, Nutrition, Packaging)
• Additives, Allergens, Environment impact, Ingredient analysis, Nutrient levels, Nutrition facts (incl. micro-nutrients)
• Language dependant fields (like ingredients, product name, packaging text)
• Eco-Score, Nutri-Score, NOVA groups
• Translated, high-level and customizable product information (Attributes)
• Product completion status
• Add support for Folksonomy Engine (custom properties for products)
• Add support for Open Food Facts Events (Gamification)
• Add support for NutriPatrol (moderation)
• Add support for Search-A-Licious (next-gen search)
• Add support for OpenPrices (prices collection)

PERSONALIZATION

• Recommended Daily Intakes
• Translated, high-level and customizable product information (Attributes)
• Autocompleting for the user inputs, by giving suggestions for (Labels, categories, ingredients, additives, traces ...)

SEARCH

• search products by tags
• search products with / without additives
• search products with keywords
• Personalized search

WRITE

• Save product to Open Food Facts
• Send images
• User comments and auth
• Anonymous photo upload
• Photo operations (rotate, crop, select, unselect with language awareness)

ML

• Robotoff support
• Extract ingredients from ingredients image: User can extract the ingredients text if it is missing
• Get the OCR of the ingredients photo (for validation purposes)

Roadmap

• List of new APIs to implement: /~https://github.com/openfoodfacts/api-documentation/issues

[void0x23]

I'm actually working on new version of the Java wrapper, using Java 17 and adding the new apis