Request for comments: Adding a GraphQL API

[Mads Kiilerich]

On 09/09/2016 02:04 PM, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:
> In case it is helpful, here are my current API needs:
> - be able to submit a pull request via API, after having pushed
> commits to Kallithea. We want to be able to indicate the range of
> commits that should be part of the pull request. Until now, we are
> using PullRequestsCtroller directly, exposed as API via an .ini file
> setting, by sending POST data along.
> - be able to query/find a user 'handle' (something we can use to
> indicate reviewers of a PR) based on some search data, perhaps a name,
> username or e-mail.
> - be able to retrieve information about a PR, much like what you
> described above in the example

Either way, as hinted in 
https://bitbucket.org/conservancy/kallithea/pull-requests/260/from-unity-2016-09-07/diff 
, I suggest we short term try to improve the JSON-RPC API. Experience 
and some code and cleanup from that can most likely be reused.

(I guess a next short term step for the current API could be to get rid 
of the special controller that cause problems for TG2. It is getting 
more clear that it really just is a special (delayed) authentication and 
dispatching to methods. It seems like it doesn't benefit from anything 
special from the web framework.)

/Mads