On Mon, 2016-05-23 at 17:40 +0200, Sönke Ludwig via Digitalmars-d-
announce wrote:

> 
> Oh, okay, misunderstood that. The basic protocol is very simple:

My fault, I rushed my original email and didn't set out the problem
properly.

> GET /packages/index.json
> Yields a JSON array with all package names
> 
> GET /packages/[package].json
> Returns a JSON object with general information about a package, 
> including all available versions
> 
> GET /packages/[package]/[version].json
> Returns a JSON object with the package recipe of a particular
> version 
> (dub.json format), augmented with some additional fields
> 
> GET /packages/[package]/[version].zip
> Yields a zipped up version of the package

Sponditious. I will see if I can query the server to create a suitable
dictionary each time so as to avoid caching results, or whether caching
and updating is necessary.

> 
> There is also a separate search API (and some other less interesting
> APIs):
> 
> GET /api/packages/search?q=...
> 
> 
> We should really get that written down on a web page...

The above is close to all that is needed for those of us want an API
for working with a running server.

I might even use this is Python Workshops for testing HTTP APIs. :-)

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