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