[aur-dev] [PATCH] Add newly submitted packages functionality with json interface

[Laszlo Papp]

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Laszlo Papp <djszapi at archlinux.us> wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 1:40 AM, elij <elij.mx at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I guess I don't see the need for this.
> >> If you want to see 'new packages', just use the rss feed.
> >> Dumping this in the rcp api seems... wrong to me.
> >>
> >>
> > Hello Elliot!
> >
> > Thank you the feedback! My opinion in this matter is that if I'd like to
> > create a frontend program for AUR, especially console based e.g., or to
> > create another API/backend for AUR, then the json interface/output would
> be
> > more portable than parsing html/xml pages to get an option for a command
> > line frontend to get the newly submitted/updated packages.
> >
> > Rss feed and this option are different purposes in fact.
> > With this option from command line you could get anytime the newly
> > updated/submitted packages, but with rss you see them continously. The
> first
> > facility is really console based, but the second is webpage based, I
> think
> > it's different or maybe I'm wrong.
>
> You could do the exact same thing with an RSS feed... I don't
> understand how this data being in RSS makes it so that you cannot
> fetch the results whenever you want. RSS isn't made of magic.
>
> $ cat aurpkgs.py
> #!/usr/bin/env python
>
> import feedparser
>
> pkgs=feedparser.parse("http://aur.archlinux.org/rss2.php")
>
> print pkgs.feed.title
>
> for i in pkgs.entries:
>    print i.title
>
>
> $ python aurpkgs.py
> AUR Newest Packages
> munipack
> rawtran
> fitspng
> sloppy
> lib32-jack-audio-connection-kit
> lib32-libsndfile
> lib32-flac
> perl-proc-pid-file
> libcss-svn
> libwapcaplet-svn
> vpipe
> aircrack-ng-cuda
> perl-compress-zlib
> generatorrunner
> haskell-vty-ui
> lua-md5
> haskell-bindings-libcddb
> geda-gaf
> haskell-sample-frame
> gdatacopier-svn
>


It seems good in fact, I don't know yet it can be implemented in C, I will
look after it later, thanks.

It can't be solved with rss if a new API/AUR backend will be born. In that
case a pure C mysql api handling, or json interface would be better choice
in my opinion. I mean for a new backend, API without depending on any
webpage application.

Best Regards,
Laszlo Papp