[Buildbot-devel] XML-RPC

[Marc-Antoine Ruel]

I really don't mind, I upstreamed the /json because some people thought it
could be useful to them. If some people starts to use it, cool but I made it
for me primarily. You shouldn't be afraid of deleting code. In any case,
it's in the VCS. Keeping backward compatibility is a huge cost.

I say "you" in the broad sense here as "anyone feeling empowered to do it".

M-A

2010/4/29 Dustin J. Mitchell <dustin at zmanda.com>

> 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
>
> --
> Open Source Storage Engineer
> http://www.zmanda.com
>
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