Bug#712979: debbugs: please add REST api
On 21/06/13 at 15:13 +0300, Pawel Sarbinowski wrote:
> Package: debbugs
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> It would be great if you could add a REST api for bts with the data
> encapsulated in JSON. It would provide the same information as the existing
> soap api but it would be far more convenient to use in applications where using
> soap is difficult and inefficient.
> For instance i'm making the debian android app for gsoc 2013 and i need to
> query bts for various info. But for that usage soap doesn't follow the
> constraints of mobile computing (both in size of transmitted data and in the
> processing it needs afterwards) and also The "easiest" way to use soap in
> android is with something like kSoap2 which adds to the maintenance as an
> extra lib and generally complicates the development a lot.
> Would it be possible?
what info do you need? as a temporary solution until this is implemented
in the BTS, it could be possible to do it as a UDD CGI.
Lucas
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