[Buildbot-devel] XML-RPC

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Marc-Antoine Ruel <maruel at chromium.org> wrote:
> Does anyone uses XML-RPC?

To give some of the background here, in the meeting we discussed
adding a REST interface to buildbot, and really doing the full design
there.  My answer was: "ok, we have JSON, XMLRPC, HTML/HTTP, and soon
direct MySQL for those who use a database backend .. 5 status APIs
seems a bit much!"

So we're thinking of either removing one of those APIs or merging them
into the same implementation (e.g., exposing the same methods via JSON
and XMLRPC).  XMLRPC is the oldest and least featureful, and thus
first on the chopping block.

For myself, I was recently playing around with a JavaScript frontend
to alert me to a finished build at Zmanda, and I ended up doing a good
bit of work to document the XMLRPC interface; what little
documentation was available before was mostly incorrect.  So I suspect
it's little-used.

Dustin

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