[aur-dev] pkgbase queries via RPC interface

[Dave Reisner]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 12:28:10PM -0700, Colin Woodbury wrote:
> (A)
> 
> Although, I thought `info` lookups had been converted to return Arrays as
> well.

This is only true of RPCv3:

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/40963

> If not, might I resuggest the merging of `info` and `multiinfo`? Fuse them
> into just `info`, and return any number of results as an Array, given any
> number of arguments, also including the ability to search by pkgbase.
> 
> On 12 August 2014 21:56, Xyne <xyne at archlinux.ca> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > The RPC search, info and multiinfo methods return no data when the pkgbase
> > is
> > passed as the argument.
> >
> > I would like to discuss the following ideas:
> >
> > A) Return all of the packages in the pkgbase for search, info and multiinfo
> >    queries. For search and multiinfo this would be natural. For info it
> > would be
> >    left to the client to detect that the result is an array instead of an
> >    object and thus infer that the result is from a pkgbase (or simply add
> > that
> >    data to a new field in the result object). With the advent of the query
> >    version parameter this should not be an issue for backwards
> > compatibility.
> >
> > B) Add a parameter to query pkgbase data (e.g. object=pkgbase) and return a
> >    JSON object with pkgbase-specific data (everything that still applies
> > from
> >    regular package data, plus an array of the included packages). Given
> > that
> >    there are AUR pages for pkgbases, it would be consistent to provide that
> >    data via the RPC interface.
> >
> > I believe this would be very useful. What do you think? Would it be
> > difficult?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Xyne
> >