From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: El Draper Subject: Re: First web interface and service API draft Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 13:37:59 +0100 Message-ID: <4268F027.6030304@eldiablo.co.uk> References: <1114166517.3233.4.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Apr 22 14:34:25 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DOxLz-0005Uu-8z for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 14:33:51 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261311AbVDVMiU (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Apr 2005 08:38:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262035AbVDVMiU (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Apr 2005 08:38:20 -0400 Received: from p15160959.pureserver.info ([217.160.222.187]:55264 "EHLO mail.bytemehosting.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261311AbVDVMiP (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Apr 2005 08:38:15 -0400 Received: (qmail 11098 invoked from network); 22 Apr 2005 12:38:14 -0000 Received: from el@eldiablo.co.uk by jenna.bytemehosting.net by uid 2020 with qmail-scanner-1.22-st-qms (clamscan: 0.80.533. spamassassin: 3.02. Clear:RC:0(81.174.169.60):SA:0(0.0/7.0):. Processed in 15.330265 secs); 22 Apr 2005 12:38:14 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=7.0 X-Antivirus-BYTEMEHOSTING.NET-Mail-From: el@eldiablo.co.uk via jenna.bytemehosting.net X-Antivirus-BYTEMEHOSTING.NET: 1.22-st-qms (Clear:RC:0(81.174.169.60):SA:0(0.0/7.0):. Processed in 15.330265 secs Process 11089) Received: from drapers.force9.co.uk (HELO [192.168.0.233]) (edraper@[81.174.169.60]) (envelope-sender ) by jenna.bytemehosting.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 22 Apr 2005 12:37:58 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Christian Meder In-Reply-To: <1114166517.3233.4.camel@localhost> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Christian Meder wrote: >Comments ? Ideas ? Other feedback ? > > > Hi guys, New around these parts, so be gentle :-) I would like to suggest the idea of a SOAP interface. If we are talking about a true service orientated API, then a way of calling a uri and having it return a nice SOAP packet with the return data in it would be great. If we ensured compliance with web service standards, then it would then mean anyone could write themselves a client desktop based program, a web interface, or any utility command line tools (in Java, .net, whatever they want, and for whatever platform), that could communicate with the web service and retrieve relevant data. You'd then have a true service interface into a Git repository. Seeing as how the idea of returning XML has already come up, I don't think it would be a stretch to extend the web interface to returning web service compliant SOAP packets in order to return data. Regards, -= El =-