Bug#712979: debbugs: please add REST api

Hi.

Pawel Sarbinowski <[email protected]> writes:

> 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?
>

May I suggest that you have a look at #565513 which discussed the same
kind of use case.

OSLC-CM is a proposed standard (now managed at OASIS) that would help
make debbugs interoperable with any supporting client.

Of course, OSLC-CM ranges from GET to modifying primitives for modifying
bugs... so #565513 may be a bit larger spectrum than #712979.

Hope this helps.

Best regards,
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Olivier BERGER 
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