Opened at 2011-09-25T00:37:07Z
Last modified at 2012-03-29T19:30:24Z
#1541 new enhancement
Add ?t=xml parameter for getting file statistics
| Reported by: | bibilthaysose | Owned by: | bibilthaysose |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | undecided |
| Component: | code-frontend-web | Version: | 1.9.0a1 |
| Keywords: | xml webapi | Cc: | |
| Launchpad Bug: |
Description
The best way to programmatically retrieve file statistics is currently with GET /uri/$PATH?t=json. However, xml has some advantages (such as xpath, xsl, xsv) over json.
The general consensus seems to be that converting generically between json and xml is problematic because of things like attributes, cdata and textual elements. However, I believe that these difficulties are only encountered when translating richly written xml (that makes use of the aforementioned artifacts) to json. It seems like going from json to xml should not carry such difficulties.
There is a library of xsl functions called fxsl which contains a function called f:json_document(). This would require the libxslt (and libxml2) module if it were to be used on the server side.
Change History (2)
comment:1 Changed at 2012-03-29T19:30:00Z by davidsarah
- Component changed from unknown to code-frontend-web
- Keywords webapi added
- Milestone changed from eventually to undecided
- Priority changed from major to normal
comment:2 Changed at 2012-03-29T19:30:24Z by davidsarah
- Keywords file statistic removed
I'm -1 on this ticket because I think it's unnecessary complexity.