Re: [Monotone-devel] url schemes

[Thomas Moschny]

On Saturday 29 March 2008 Philipp Gröschler wrote:
> To become more technical again: when in some distant future these URL
> features become available, would it then be possible for just any
> application to connect to a running 'mtn serve' process via network,
> issue one or more HTTP requests and get the relevant answers, without
> the need for this application to speak netsync?

The (experimental) nvm.nuskool branch already provides something similar: You 
can, via scgi, connect a mtn process to a webserver and it will serve 
json-over-http requests. This is bidirectional: you can query for revisions, 
files and file deltas, and you can send new ones back. The new gsync command 
(also in this branch) syncs a local database against such a server.

Meanwhile, I wrote a (quick'n'dirty) twisted plugin. It serves mtn content 
(read-only, for now) via http and json, over a tcp or a unix domain socket. 
Here, the requests are not coded as post-data in json, but directly in the 
url, very similar to those mentioned in the thread. I think I'll use that for 
tracmtn, so it will show up in a branch soon.

Regards,
Thomas

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