Re: [Debian-sf-devel] Command Line Interface

[Tim Uckun]

> I have been thinking about this for a while for the CodeX site at Xerox. 
> My view of it is that each service should export aq subset of its API 
> through a mechanism of some sort. Of course SOAP immediately comes to mind 
> but there may be other ways... then the command line stuff can be simply 
> built on top the SOAP API.
>
> From a corporate standpoint the ability of a GF-like platform to be 
> scriptable is key to integrate it with the existing project development 
> processes in place and/or legacy applications.


A few thoughts on the manner.

It might be possible to write a simple shell script or a perl program which 
takes a command like
gforge address@hidden login

and turn it into
curl 
http://localhost/gforge/cli_api.php?action=login&userid=someuser&password=somepassword

in fact if you wanted to be more generic you could do this
curl 
http://localhost/gforge/cli_api.php?action=login&param1=someuser&param2=somepassword

At this point the php page could hand back some session ID which would have 
the user info,  and a datetime stamp in it (so it expires) and the client 
could keep passing this sessionid back to the php page on each invocation.

I believe this would be the absolute "simplest thing that could possibly work".

You can even then use the same API and register it with a SOAP server 
thereby killing two birds with one stone.




:wq
Tim Uckun
US Investigations Services/Due Diligence
 http://www.diligence.com/