747201 - Create new extension that exports a REST based API as Bugzilla WebService on BMO

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 880669

(bugzilla.mozilla.org :: API, enhancement)

Description

[David Lawrence [:dkl]]

Create new extension that provides a REST API WebService for clients of BMO to access Bug and other data. This allows the REST API to be run natively against the BMO database instead of using a proxy (BzAPI) that clients must connect to now.

Requirements:

1. Run natively and access Bugzilla data directly leading to better performance
2. Must be compatible as much as possible with the current BzAPI
3. Be coded as extension allow admins to drop in support for REST to their Bugzilla instance
   without modifying core Bugzilla code.

Long Term Goals:

1. Extend the REST API to allow further access to data than what is currently available    through BzAPI
2. Move from an extension into the Core Bugzilla WebService code itself after review and
   acceptance by the upstream.

Dkl

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

dkl: can you stick the existing code in the extensions directory in the bzr repo?

Did we ever talk about the right name for the extension? I'd probably call it RestAPI. Please don't call it BzAPI - there's already a small extension called that which is part of the existing BzAPI, and there will be dreadful confusion.

Gerv

Comment 2

[David Lawrence [:dkl]]

(In reply to Gervase Markham [:gerv] from comment #1)
> dkl: can you stick the existing code in the extensions directory in the bzr
> repo?

Sure

> Did we ever talk about the right name for the extension? I'd probably call
> it RestAPI. Please don't call it BzAPI - there's already a small extension
> called that which is part of the existing BzAPI, and there will be dreadful
> confusion.

I will not call it BzAPI even though it is striving to be compatible with it. I would like to call it simply 'REST' as it is now instead of something like RestAPI which seems redundant to me. Also the parts of the BzAPI BMO extension can (and probably will be) added to the REST extension so that the former can be removed.

dkl

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Hi dkl,

Still hoping to see the REST extension show up here:
http://bzr.mozilla.org/bugzilla/extensions/

:-)

Gerv

Comment 4

[Dustin J. Mitchell [:dustin] (he/him)]

The existing API is still running on a single random system in the community network.  How is this work coming along to replace that?

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

:dustin: that's bug 743916.

Gerv

Comment 6

[David Lawrence [:dkl]]

Current code that i have so far is now viewable at:

http://bzr.mozilla.org/bugzilla/extensions/rest/files

Will start up again this week on this as we still trying to get this available sooner rather than later.

dkl

Comment 7

[Dustin J. Mitchell [:dustin] (he/him)]

Any progress?  We're running low on IPs in the community space, so I'd like to be able to retire the current Bugzilla API host (bug 743916) soon.

Comment 8

[David Lawrence [:dkl]]

Closing this as we are doing this differently now and tacking this in bug 880669.