On 5/31/18 11:24 PM, 尤立宇 wrote:
Hi, this is a WIP patch following up the one at March: [PATCH] feat(rpc): return "providers" packages when querying by `name` or `name-desc` (I failed to make git-send-email to reply to the thread)
The goal is to allow tools to use the RPC to resolve dependencies reliably, by introducing a new version of the RPC (v6): 1. Support querying by the provides field 2. Support querying with multiple _by_, for example, by[]=name&by[]=provides
The design pretty much follows the one discussed (in the thread mentioned above) previously, I can bring up more context if needed. Here's a draft document of how it works: https://github.com/afg984/aurweb/wiki/aurweb-RPC-Interface-(v6-draft)
This is a WIP patch, and I'd like to get some feedback before moving on.
There are a few things worth noting: 1. commit 1ff40987 implemented search by depends, checkdepends, optdepends. They are currently left out. 2. v5 allowed searching for orphan packages by leaving out the arg= argument. This is left out as well. 3. as search and info is now a similar concept (and a little different than those in v5), I've implemented them in a separate function. I'd like to know if this is the way to go, or I should try to reuse the existing structure.
Can you update doc/rpc.txt to describe the new version? Looks like the github wiki contains partial work towards this, but it's not in asciidoc format. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User