[Fwd: Re: Bugzilla + JSON]

Gervase Markham gerv at mozilla.org
Wed Dec 12 11:29:06 UTC 2007


David Miller wrote:
> Would it be possible to get the bugzilla results in this JSON format 
> with a new ctype, like &ctype=exhibit

We could certainly do that without much difficulty.

> Also, changing columns in the results view requires the user's machine 
> to have particular information storied in a cookie, ideally all of the 
> data would be sent in JSON so the same custom exhibit presentation of 
> results would work on any machine.

And that could be done as well; the exhibit type would just ignore the 
cookie and send all data.

The question is: do we want to change our default JSON format to be 
exhibit-compatible? What else currently uses that interface that we know of?

Gerv



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