On Aug 12, 2009, at 2:24 PM, Stephan Beal wrote:
> Hi, all!
>
> i've recently been doing a lot of work with AJAX and JSON, and now
> i've got the idea that it would be really cool to be able to get the
> fossil timeline as JSON so i could post the latest stats on an
> arbitrary page.
>
> Before i take a crack at this, i'd like to ask:
>
> a) Any objections, Richard?
I have no objections.
>
> Then the more general: what should it look like? My first thoughts
> are (minus extraneous quoting required by the JSON format):
>
> { timeline:
> [
> {date:'2009-08-12', entries:[{time:'17:00:00',
> version:'e73a473...',
> user:'...',
> tags:'...',
> message:'...'
> },
> (repeat for each entry for
> this particular day)
> ]
> },
> (repeat until we have the request number of entries, i.e. the
> "timeline -n 12" option)
> ]
> }
>
> that basically mimics what we see on the /timeline output.
>
> i'm not yet certain if this would need to be a new command or (more
> likely) an option like:
>
> fossil timeline -j ...
> or:
> /timeline?n=12&json=1 (this is slightly problematic, though, because
> we need to special-case this and not output the normal page)
>
> The second option (or something similar) would be necessary in order
> to fetch the data via external requests (via JavaScript or whatever).
>
> :-?
>
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D. Richard Hipp
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