(seemingly) simple but useful WebService expansion?

[Scott Saad]

OK. I definitely have a more clear understanding of the needs now. Thanks
for take the time to explain. I hope you weren't annoyed too much with my
questions.

After reading more on bug 398281, it seems like this functionality is geared
for a 4.0 target but I'm unclear on the current status. Are there patches
available where things are partially implemented? Is it something I can
contribute to in order to help move things forward?

Thanks,
Scott

On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Max Kanat-Alexander <mkanat at bugzilla.org>
wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 11:38:02 -0600 "Scott Saad" <saadsj at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Sorry about the verbosity on that one, will definitely keep it short
> > and sweet in the future. :-)
> >
> > I've been following the conversations at
> > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=398281:
> >
> > I understand not wanting to provide more than one way of getting at
> > bug information. What concerns me is the possibility that the concept
> > of Bug.search may be overkill. [snip]
>
>        Hmm. Well, one of the concerns with these sorts of interfaces
> is being able to do as much as possible in one call, because there can
> be a lot of latency in a single call (particularly for installations
> that aren't running under mod_perl).
>
>        Also, the basic case will look pretty simple:
>
>        Bug.search({ match => { product => 'TestProduct' } })
>
>        In normal API design I'd be all with you on the
> one-function-one-task design (and in fact that's the way I originally
> wanted to design the interface), but because this is a web service, we
> need to make our individual functions fairly powerful to be useful to
> the clients consuming them (from my experience talking to those
> clients). Also, operations have to be atomic (particularly important
> with the latency issue) which is only possible in our case with single,
> powerful functions.
>
>        -Max
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