JSON API in the Fossil SCM
November 4, 2011 on 10:31 pm | In StrangerThanFiction, software-dev |
Hi, all!
Since mid September i’ve been working on adding a JSON API to the Fossil SCM. As of just a short while ago, D. Richard Hipp, legendary author of sqlite3 and Fossil, merged that API into the Fossil trunk. :-D
The pseudo-historic commit is here:
http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/info/796dcfe072
With these features it becomes possible to write custom applications on top of fossil, communicating with it via JSON (either over HTTP or stdin/file-based JSON). There’s still lots of work to make the JSON API widely usable, but this merge widens exposure to the new features, and exposure is the best way for us to evolve the feature sets the API needs.
Happy Hacking!
—– stephan beal
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This is great news! I’m looking to use this as an API for an Eclipse plug-in. Thanks for building this.
Comment by Ron — November 19, 2011 #
This is really exciting!
If have just started to work with fossil (I already love it :-)) and was actually investigating how I could implement user interaction with the repository via a web application on top of fossil.
Please, keep up the good work!
Thank you
Jan
Comment by Jan — December 4, 2011 #