On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 1:12 PM, <bytevolc...@safe-mail.net> wrote: > Good day to you all, > > I have been trying to find up-to-date information about the JSON API > built into Fossil. Is there any plans on moving forward with this?
i'm the original developer of the JSON API, but a severe, long-term case of RSI (since Dec. 2014) has forced me to retire from my open source work (except for occasional tiny patches), thus i don't personally work on it any more. It's unclear if/when my damaged elbow nerves will ever recover, so i can't make any code-related commitments (my left elbow is still not fully recovered after an OP last May, and i've got a second operation planned for early 2018 to try to alleviate the problem in the right elbow). That's not to say that the JSON API is off-limits to other developers! i would love to see someone take it over and actively work on it. > The latest information I could find is a link to a document on Google > Docs in a mail dated back in 2013 or so, and I cannot tell when the > document was last updated. The last time it was mentioned on the > official fossil-users mailing list was in March 2017 > (https://www.mail-archive.com/fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm. > org/msg24857.html) > but simply mentioned the same Google Docs document: > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fXViveNhDbiXgCuE7QDXQOKeFzf2q > NUkBEgiUvoqFN4/view Those are still the current/complete docs. If someone has mutated the JSON code such that it no longer matches those docs, i'm not aware of it. > Has this API been abandoned? Not abandoned, just not currently actively developed. > It seems like a nice feature if you > want to develop a custom UI or application that uses Fossil as a > back-end, such as a full-blown wiki, for example. > That's exactly what i use the JSON API for. e.g.: http://fossil.wanderinghorse.net/wikis/cson that uses a custom front-end to server/manage wiki content from/in a fossil repo. It uses client-side rendering using the GoogleCode wiki format, rather than Fossil's built-in one. -- ----- stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ "Freedom is sloppy. But 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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