On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 11:19 PM, Ramey, Christopher <[email protected]>wrote:
> I've been lurking on this list for awhile now, and I've seen more than a > few posts asking for behavior changes to the web UI. For example, the > recent post from Michai Ramakers about switching to a single-column layout > for the file listings (something I'd certainly like to see done, too.) The > barrier for changes like this is that the majority of the display logic for > those pages is hard-coded in C and compiled in. So if you wanted say, a > single-column layout in the file list, you would not only have to take on > that C code and the HTML it produces, you'd also need to maintain your own > version of Fossil with said changes. > Good morning! Part of the purpose of the JSON API is to make this sort of thing possible. Here are some proof-of-concept demos which build off of it: http://fossil.wanderinghorse.net/repos/fwiki/editor/ however, some functionality cannot be implemented using JSON because they don't fit in JSON's world view (e.g. upload of binary data) or because they require a local checkout (e.g. a commit operation). A couple summers ago i experimented with adding "custom pages" support to fossil, but that lack of a full-fledged scripting language baked into fossil made it unfeasible (TH1 is far too limited for that). In the mean time there is a TCL binding which could be used as a basis for such a feature. My question is this: Is there any intention (or even interest) in > abstracting out the display logic for the web UI pages so that changes can > be made outside of the compiled code? Is that the ultimate intention of the > JSON API, to make all the web UI pages javascript powered JSON consumers? > Yes, there is intention/interest, and and yes, that is a primary goal of the JSON API. The limiting factors are time and energy :/. Last summer i started work on splitting Fossil into a library API, which will enable "all sorts of things" to be built off of it. Much of the core lib-level functionality is there, but much is still missing (e.g. checkout/checkin, and no network-related functionality). Any support in helping move that along would be much appreciated. :) http://fossil.wanderinghorse.net/repos/libfossil/index.cgi/wiki/home -- ----- stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ http://gplus.to/sgbeal "Since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do." -- Bigby Wolf
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