On Mon, 05 Nov 2007, Raphael Geissert wrote: > Adeodato Simó wrote: > > * Raphael Geissert [Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:19:02 -0600]: > >> It would of course be easier if there was some other kind of way > >> to retrieve information from the BTS other than email and SOAP. > > > > Why is SOAP not appropriate? > > I find SOAP very complex for some queries which could be easily served in a > format like XML-RPC.
Huh? Unless your favorite language's soap bindings are horrid, SOAP should be fairly simple and trivial.[1] None of the examples in http://wiki.debian.org/DebbugsSoapInterface are "very complex", which covers 3 of the reasonably popular languages. I mean, in perl, it's as simple as: perl -MSOAP::Lite -MData::Dumper \ -e 'print Dumper( SOAP::Lite->uri("Debbugs/SOAP") ->proxy("http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/soap.cgi";) ->get_bugs(package=>"debbugs") ->result() )'; Don Armstrong 1: I mean, the whole point of specifications like SOAP is to make it easy to make trivial frameworks to implement neat things in a language independent fashion. -- More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly. -- Woody Allen http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu
