523653 - Socorro - develop a RESTful Pythonic application service to back the Socorro UI

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Socorro :: General, task)

Description

[K Lars Lohn [:lars] [:klohn]]

There are several data mining application written in Python than can generate very useful data.  They are, unfortunately, command line applications.  We need a way to take these useful. We can wrap them into a web service and use them as a backing for the Socorro UI.  

Once this structure is in place, we can slowly convert all the UI to this.  It would remove the burden of having the UI do database access at all - thereby separating the UI from "business logic"

Complication: we're using a PHP connection pooling mechanism that might need to be replicated in Python.

Comment 1

[Austin King [:ozten]]

(In reply to comment #0)
The pooling is to reduce load on the DB servers. It is language agnostic, so Python would connect to PG Bouncer.

Comment 2

[Austin King [:ozten]]

API for plotting graphs:
http://code.google.com/p/socorro/wiki/TopCrashersSigRankAPI
http://code.google.com/p/socorro/wiki/TopCrashersSigTrendAPI

Comment 3

[K Lars Lohn [:lars] [:klohn]]

a new api is now available: SignatureHistory.  see http://code.google.com/p/socorro/wiki/TopCrashersSigHistoryAPI  for details.

This also includes changes to the whole codebase for the middleware webapi.  If you're currently playing with it, update the  .../scripts/config/webapiconfig.py to the values found in  .../scripts/config/webapiconfig.py.dist

Comment 4

[K Lars Lohn [:lars] [:klohn]]

This is now in production