Re: [fossil-dev] Subtle edge case with RO repository and certain /json endpoints

2016-01-29 Thread Stephan Beal
On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 1:12 AM, Ross Berteig wrote: > However, if the targeted repository is not writable to the process that is > running fossil http to handle the request, SQLITE quite properly has a > problem with that and the request fails with status 500. > i didn't think that was much of

[fossil-dev] Subtle edge case with RO repository and certain /json endpoints

2016-01-29 Thread Ross Berteig
As I continue to build test cases for the JSON support, I poked at this sore spot that Stephan Beal hinted at in the JSON API documentation, and indeed it does something possibly unexpected. A timeline of checkin events can be retrieved in JSON over HTTP by GET /json/timeline/checkin as long a