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The return of the Developers blog!
Greetings, developers! Today's post covers Plans for developer-related news, an SDE update and clearing up an old "Temporary" alert that existed here. News update: We know it's been a long time since this page was updated, but it's time we have a home for third-party developer-related content once again. We had been using a combination of the...
SSO Endpoint Deprecations
Hi developer friends! We'd like to inform you of upcoming SSO changes which might affect your application if you are developing 3rd party apps using ESI or using the EVE SSO for user authentication. We'll be making the following changes on November 1st 2021. Deprecating obsolete endpoints The old OAuth endpoints oauth/authorize, oauth/token and...
V4 of ESI public character information to be removed on 21.10.2021
On 30 July 2020 in the ESI changelog we announced the deprecation of v4 version characters/{character_id} ESI route on 15 September and subsequent removal on 21 September. Unfortunately we still see heavy traffic hitting that route which as of now has legacy status. Accordingly we've decided to postpone the (admittedly quite abrupt) removal. Its...
ESI Best Practices: Generating Code With Underscore Routes
This blog post is part of a series of blogs examining best practices for ESI development. Each blog will be published on the 8th of each month during the journey towards XML API and CREST’s termination date. The legacy APIs will be terminated on May 8th, 2018, or earlier if metrics signal a trivial level of usage. This blog explains best practices...
From Image Server to a Whole New Image Service
As outlined by the previous blog, we’re upgrading the image server to an entirely new service that better fits the modern developer environment and needs. This means a friendlier, RESTful API, dynamic resizing, multi-tenancy support, and all these will be served through a global CDN. A New Domain Initially, we thought about sharing the same domain...
Removing Datasource Singularity
Removing Datasource Singularity In our efforts to increase ESI production stability, and limit our maintenance overhead, we will be removing Singularity as an available datasource for ESI production. This action is planned to take effect during downtime tomorrow, 14th of January 2020. -- Team Tech Co Want to be part of the ESI conversation? Join...
REMOVAL of scopes from SSO
On 8 April 2020, we will be making the following change: REMOVAL of scopes from SSO esi-corporations.read_outposts.v1; esi-corporations.write_structures.v1. These scopes have not served any purpose for a long time now but we see that some applications still request them. If those applications aren't updated they will break after scopes removal.
Temporary blackout of ESI-bookmarks
Temporary blackout of esi-bookmarks With the coming changes to our bookmark systems, and how internal schedules have lined up, we will be temporarily shutting down esi-bookmarks routes to re-implement them for the new system. This will result in empty list returns to reduce the impact on third party developers. The affected routes are:...
Technical note: don't forget to URL encode your query params!
Greetings space developers! Teams Tech Co and BBS have been looking into a small flutter of errors that we started seeing this morning after a new deployment of the SSO. During this deployment, we changed a few details about the structure of SSOv1 access tokens and there's been some interesting fallout. The short version is that prior to today, v1...
Upcoming changes to the Image Export Collection
Greetings developers! As was mentioned at EVESterdam 2019 at the start of the third party developers panel, we're looking into deprecating the IEC and upgrading the image server to better support cases that people were using the IEC for. This will remove the need for a lot of work to be done every release by team TriLambda, as the IEC generation...
Third party dev roundtable at Evesterdam
Greetings spaceship developers! As you may already know, CCP is taking Fanfest on the road this year with the EVE Invasion World Tour. On March 23-24 CCP will be joining forces with Evesterdam to bring you beer, spaceships, presentations and more in the Compagnietheater at the heart of Amsterdam. We will be hosting a third-party development...
Removal of redirect from .tech.ccp.is on Jan 7th
Greetings Developers! Yesterday was a day of some disruption to ESI, for which Tech Co apologises. During the process of resolving yesterday's issues it was necessary to discard the DNS entries for esi.tech.ccp.is. As a result, ESI was for approximately 20 hours only available on https://esi.evetech.net/ The esi.evetech.net URL has been the...