--- a/test.py	Thu Dec 31 13:08:59 2009 -0800
+++ b/test.py	Thu Dec 31 13:33:28 2009 -0800
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 
 import whoisi_cache
 
+json = whoisi_cache.json
+
 class FakeWhoisiServer(object):
     def __init__(self, people):
         self._people = people
@@ -26,6 +28,38 @@
         self._validate_index(person)
         return {'person': deepcopy(self._people[person-1])}
 
+class WhoisiServerTests(unittest.TestCase):
+    def setUp(self):
+        unittest.TestCase.setUp(self)
+        self.urls = {}
+        self.server = whoisi_cache.WhoisiServer(url="http://foo/",
+                                                urlopen=self.fake_open)
+
+    def fake_open(self, url):
+        return json.dumps(self.urls[url])
+
+    def testGetMaxPersonIDWorks(self):
+        self.urls = {
+            'http://foo/api/getMaxPersonID?app=f': ['zap']
+            }
+        self.assertEqual(self.server.get_max_person_id(app="f"),
+                         ['zap'])
+
+    def testGetPeopleWorks(self):
+        self.urls = {
+            'http://foo/api/getPeople?app=f&first=1&last=2': ['bop']
+            }
+        self.assertEqual(self.server.get_people(app="f", first=1,
+                                                last=2),
+                         ['bop'])
+
+    def testGetPersonWorks(self):
+        self.urls = {
+            'http://foo/api/getPerson?app=f&person=1': ['blap']
+            }
+        self.assertEqual(self.server.get_person(app="f", person=1),
+                         ['blap'])
+
 class WhoisiCacheTests(unittest.TestCase):
     def testRefreshPeopleWorks(self):
         people = [{'name': "bobbo"}, {'name': 'gobbo'}]

--- a/whoisi_cache.py	Thu Dec 31 13:08:59 2009 -0800
+++ b/whoisi_cache.py	Thu Dec 31 13:33:28 2009 -0800
@@ -1,4 +1,14 @@
+import logging
+import urllib
+import urllib2
+
+try:
+    import json
+except ImportError:
+    import simplejson as json
+
 MAX_PEOPLE_REQ_SIZE = 100
+DEFAULT_URL = "http://whoisi.com/"
 
 def split_seq(seq, size):
     """
@@ -9,6 +19,32 @@
 
     return [seq[i:i+size] for i in range(0, len(seq), size)]
 
+class WhoisiServer(object):
+    def __init__(self, url=DEFAULT_URL, urlopen=urllib2.urlopen):
+        self._urlopen = urlopen
+        self.url = url
+
+    def _call_api_method(self, name, query_args):
+        full_url = "%sapi/%s?%s" % (self.url, name,
+                                    urllib.urlencode(query_args))
+        logging.debug('retrieving %s' % full_url)
+        return json.loads(self._urlopen(full_url))
+
+    def get_person(self, app, person):
+        return self._call_api_method('getPerson',
+                                     [('app', app),
+                                      ('person', str(person))])
+
+    def get_people(self, app, first, last):
+        return self._call_api_method('getPeople',
+                                     [('app', app),
+                                      ('first', str(first)),
+                                      ('last', str(last))])
+
+    def get_max_person_id(self, app):
+        return self._call_api_method('getMaxPersonID',
+                                     [('app', app)])
+
 class WhoisiCache(object):
     APP_NAME = "whoisi-cache"