From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christian Meder Subject: Re: First web interface and service API draft Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 15:44:28 +0200 Message-ID: <1114177468.3233.55.camel@localhost> References: <1114166517.3233.4.camel@localhost> <4268F027.6030304@eldiablo.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Apr 22 15:41:35 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DOyOG-0007nD-0A for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 15:40:18 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261723AbVDVNou (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Apr 2005 09:44:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261733AbVDVNou (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Apr 2005 09:44:50 -0400 Received: from shadow.prohost.de ([216.71.84.228]:19593 "EHLO shadow.prohost.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261723AbVDVNor (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Apr 2005 09:44:47 -0400 Received: from blue.office.onestepahead.de (h-62.96.100.62.host.de.colt.net [62.96.100.62] (may be forged)) by shadow.prohost.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j3MDiUr19158; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 15:44:30 +0200 To: El Draper In-Reply-To: <4268F027.6030304@eldiablo.co.uk> X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 13:37 +0100, El Draper wrote: > 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. Ok, I should've known we get into this being a Web Java guy by profession ;-) Right now I'd like to concentrate more on a RESTful approach http://www.xfront.com/REST-Web-Services.html I'm concentrating on getting a clean and simple API for mere mortals and developers alike. SOAP is likely further down on my list. But I certainly will take patches ;-) Christian -- Christian Meder, email: chris@absolutegiganten.org The Way-Seeking Mind of a tenzo is actualized by rolling up your sleeves. (Eihei Dogen Zenji)