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

[James Michael DuPont]

--- Tim Perdue <address@hidden> wrote:
> Tim Uckun wrote:
> > 
> >> 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.
> 
> That's been out on SF.net, for about 3 years, but never publicized.
> We 
> started a system called SQUAL (sourceforge query abstraction layer)
> to 
> do just that. Never finished it of course.
> 
> Try this for example:
> https://sourceforge.net/squal/get_session_hash.php?user=foo&pass=foo2

ok, that is great, maybe we can hook into it?
mike

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James Michael DuPont
http://introspector.sourceforge.net/

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