Fwd: JSON interface

[Wilhelm Matilainen]

That's what I'm interested in doing. There just has to be some reverse
proxied application that will handle the requests to git with security in
mind.

2014-10-05 15:05 GMT+03:00 John Keeping <john at keeping.me.uk>:

> On Sun, Oct 05, 2014 at 02:13:35PM +0300, Wilhelm Matilainen wrote:
> > Instead of acting as a server providing html and css files, could there
> be
> > a only-json option?
>
> You can already configure the URL for CGit's CSS and logo files to point
> at a separate machine if you want to do that.
>
> > I could then provide all the static files minified and cached from a
> proper
> > http server already in use and request only the data from cgit.
> >
> > Using jquery:
> > -----------------------------------------------
> > $.getJSON('/git/repository/<repo>', function(data) {
> >     showRepo(data);
> > });
> > -----------------------------------------------
> >
> > By loading https://
> > <server>/git/<what-I-need>/<parameter-1>/<parameter-2>/<etc.>
> > CGit would output something like:
> > -----------------------------------------------
> > {
> > "repository": "test",
> > "property1": "value1",
> > "property2": "value2"
> > }
> > -----------------------------------------------
>
> I don't think it would be particularly difficult to add a new "json" URL
> in cmd.c and handle all of the necessary sub-options, but you would then
> need to write an entire UI in JavaScript.
>
> At that point, I'm not sure it would be CGit any more since you would be
> using essentially none of the code that exists now.
>
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