On Thu, 06 Dec 2018, Bastian Venthur wrote: > I'm Bastian the developer of python-debianbts, the library that is used by > reportbug to query the BTS. > > First of all, I'm really happy that we have an API that allows to query the > BTS, and the current interface is *a lot* better than the HTML parsing that > we did 10 years ago. However, while SOAP was state of the art a while ago, > it has it's limitations. The most severe one for us: it's getting harder and > harder to find libraries that parse SOAP properly in Python and trying to > parse SOAP replies "by hand" seems daunting.
Yeah, I totally agree that we should move to replace SOAP. My long-standing plan is to have it replaced with a REST API that returns json or html (maybe even xml?) depending on the Accepts: header. I'd certainly love to see someone write a good specification for that API using openAPI (swagger) which I (or someone else) could then work to write the perl backend to the BTS to spit out that API. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard. -- Justice Roberts in 319 U.S. 624 (1943)
